The Reliability Of The English Summative Test For The Eleventh Grade of SMAN 87 Jakarta In The Second Semester Of The 2016/2017 Academic Year

rindra asri nurtanti; dr. roslaini, m.hum; siti aminah, m.pd;

YULI KARTIKA. NIM: 1301065182. The Reliability of the English Summative Test for the Eleventh Grade of SMAN 87 Jakarta in the Second Semester of the 2016/2017 Academic Year. A Paper; the study Program of English Education, the School of Teacher Training and Education, the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2017.
The main purpose of this study is to get the empirical evidence of the answer to the problem formulation; it is whether of the English Summative test of the seventh grade students of the second semester of SMAN 87 Jakarta in the 2016/2017 academic year is reliable or not. The writer used parallel test form technique in estimating the reliability. The first test was administered on November 10th, 2016 and the parallel test was administered on December 25th, 2016.
In collecting data, the writer used a survey method using correlation technique, and for the sampling technique used simple random sampling. Then, the population respondents of this research were the tenth grade students of SMAN 87 Jakarta. The writer took 36 students of one class for the sample of the research. The data which the writer got from the research were analyzed using the Pearson’s Product Moment Analysis formula.
Based on the data analysis, it was found the observed coefficient (ro) was 0.40, and the value of the table of r-distribution, (rt) was 1.70. Because the ro > rt Ho was rejected and Hi was accepted. It gives empirical evidence to the writer to make a conclusion that the English summative test for the tenth grade students of SMAN 87 Jakarta in the second semester of the 2016/2017 Academic Year is RELIABLE.