An Item Analysis Of The English Summative Test On The Tenth Grade Students Of SMA Negeri 27 Jakarta In The Second Semester In 2017/2018 Academic Year

susilo wardoyo, drs., m.pd; sri kusuma ningsih, m.pd;

ULFATUN AMALIA. 1201065249. An Item Analysis Of The English Summative Test On The Tenth Grade Students Of SMA Negeri 27 Jakarta In The Second Semester In 2017/2018 Academic Year. The Study Programme of English Education, University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, Jakarta, 2018.

The aim of this research is to find out whether the English Summative test for the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 27 Central Jakarta in the second semester in 2017/2018 academic year has good quality in terms of difficulty level, discriminating power, and the effectiveness of option. The test of this study consisted of 50 multiple choice items. The respondents of this research were students divided into 19 students of upper group, 32 students of medium group and 19 students of lower group. In this matter, the medium group was not used because the item analysis was only needed the upper group and lower group as the sample analysis. In analyzing the difficulty level and discriminating power, the writer used the formula suggested by J.B Heaton to analyzed the difficulty level and discriminating power. The result of the data analysis showed that there are 50 items consisting of 25 items (50%) are categorized as easy level, 13 items (26%) are categorized as medium level, and there are 12 items (24%) can be categorized as difficult level in term facility value. In term of discriminating power, there are 26 items (52%) accepted, there are 21 items (42%) should be revised, and there are 3 items (6%) rejected. Based on the effectiveness of answer key, there are 14 answer key (28%) that are categorized as effective, 29 answer key (58%) that are categorized as less effective and 7 answer key (14%) as ineffective. After the effectiveness of answer key next is the effectiveness of distracters, there are 93 distracters or (46%) that are categorized as effective distracters to be the highest portion. Based on the result of the difficulty level and discriminating power, it can be concluded that the test had not fulfilled the criteria of a good quality. The benefits of the study result can help the teacher to find out if the test can be categorized as a good test in terms of difficulty level, the discriminating power of the test items and the effectiveness of distractor to make a good test of the English Summative test in the second semester for the tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 27 Jakarta. And it can also be useful to make the good quality of English test item for the next summative test.