The Face Validity of the Teacher-Made Test of English for the First Semester Students of the Tenth Grade of SMAN 98 East Jakarta in 2016/2017 Academic Year

dr. roslaini, m.hum; nurhandayani s., m.pd.;

AHMAD FIRDAUS, 1301065007. The Face Validity of the Teacher-Made Test of English for the First Semester Students of the Tenth Grade of SMAN 98 East Jakarta in 2016/2017 Academic Year. A paper. Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education. The School of Teacher Training and Education. The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2018.

The objective of this study was to know the quality of the face validity of the English summative test made by teachers for the first semester students of the tenth grade of SMAN 98 East Jakarta in 2016/2017 Academic Year and to identify the face validity and grammar accuracy. The method of this study was a descriptive qualitative method which was implemented through detailed and intensive reading focusing on the instructions, the texts, the problems (the stems and the alternatives) to see if the they were tidy, correctly typed, readable and grammatically correct. Based on the findings of the analysis, the writer concluded that the teacher-made English summative test administered at SMAN 98 East Jakarta has not had face validity because the margins were not tidy, a half of all the instructions were not clear, the sizes of the fonts were too small, there were some typos. In the aspect of grammar, the texts and questions were found inacurate, some had wrong punctuations and capitalization.