An Item Analysis Of The English Summative Test At The First Semester Of The Tenth Grade Students At SMAN 57 West Jakarta In 2015/2016 Academic Year

mugda; dr. eni burhayani, m.pd; siswana m.pd;

MAYA FARAMITHA.NIM: 0901065171. An Item Analysis of the English
Summative Test at The First Semester of the Tenth Grade Students on SMAN 57
Jakarta in 2015/2016 Academic Year. A Paper. Jakarta: The Study English
Program, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of
Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, 2016.
The objective of this research is to find out the quality of each item of the
English summative test which was administered in SMAN 57 Jakarta through
item analysis, which covers the aspect of the difficulty level or facility value,
discriminating power and the effectiveness of distracter. The method used in this
research is descriptive qualitative analysis. The writer describes the data by using
simple statistic tabulation to find out the quality of each item in the test. The test
has been conducted on December, 14th 2015. It consists of 40 multiple choice
items. The respondents of this research were students taken from one classes of
the eight grade students of SMAN 57 West Jakarta. All of them were ranked from
the highest to the lowest score. The writer took only 27% (18 students) from the
highest score as the upper group and 27% (18 students) from the lowest score as
the lower group. Based on the calculation of the difficult level in this research, the
writer finds 2 (1%) easy items, 9 (23%) medium items, 2 (1%) very easy items, 17
(43%) difficult items and 10 (25%) very difficult items. The data shows that most
items in the test are categorized as easy items. Through calculation of the
discriminating power, the writer finds 9 (23%) good and satisfactory items should
be retained, 20 (50%) poor items that need to be revised and 6 (15%) excellent 1 (
3%) and very poor items that is discarded. The result of this research is the
English summative test in SMAN 57 West Jakarta has good quality in term of
difficulty level or facility value, discriminating power and the effectiveness of
distracter