An Item Analysis Of The English Summative Test For The Eighth Grade Students Of SMPN 11 South Jakarta In The Second Semester Of The 2018/2019 Academic Year

drs. zuhad ahmad, m. pd; drs. susilo wardoyo, m. pd;

FARIDA ALIFIANI. An Item Analysis of the English Summative Test for the Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 11 South Jakarta in the second semester of the 2018/2019 Academic Year. A Paper; The Study Programme of English Education the School of Teacher Training and Education the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA Jakarta 2019.
The objectives of study were; (1) to find out whether the item was good or not, (2) to identify which one of the test item needed to be rejected, revised and accepted, (3) to find out the possible causes why the test item should be revised and proposed the alternative of the revision of each item. This research was administered at SMP N 11 South Jakarta of eighth grade students on the second semester for academic years 2018/2019.
This research was kind of a descriptive quantitative method. In this study, the writer analyzed the results of English summative test, the writer counted and analyzed all items of multiple choice items of this test to know how many items of the test have a bad quality and need to fixed or revised by the writer, which is based on the calculation of Facility Value and Discriminating Power of the test. The population of this research were 160 students of first years of SMP N 11 South Jakarta and the sample taken were 48 students of first years of SMPN 11 South Jakarta.
Based on the analysis that has been done in this writing, the writer concludes that the English summative test, which is administrated in SMP N 11 South Jakarta, can be categorized in general as a good test. From 50 items, 29 items are kept / accepted, 4 items are discarded and 17 items must be revised.