An Item Analysis of English Summative Test For The Twelve Grade Students of SMAN 31 East Jakarta in The First Semester of The 2016/2017 Academic A Year

nia kurniati sapari; drs. susilo wardoyo, m.pd.; martriwati, m.pd.;

EZI OKTOVIANI. Nim : 1301065055. AN ITEM ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH SUMMATIVE TEST FOR THE TWELEVE GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 31 EAST JAKARTA IN THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE 2016/2017 ACADEMIC A YEAR . A paper, Jakarta. The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, 2017
The aim of this research are to find out the factual of the English of Summative test for twelve grade students of SMAN 31 east Jakarta in first semester in 2016/2017 academic a year made by MGMP in term of facility value or difficulty level, discriminating power and the effectiveness of the distracters. Facility value consisted of easy or difficult the items, so discriminating power means the items can be categorized which items should be maintained, revised, and discarded. Last, effectiveness of distracters are to know how distracters work effectively.
The methods used in the research is quantitative and qualitative analysis method. Quantitative analysis used in analyzing data of the difficulty level, discriminating power, and the effectiveness of the options. Meanwhile, qualitative analysis used to describe the quality and the weakness of the items and also giving the alternative revision items.
The population of the research are the twelve grade students deal with eight classes are totally 288 students. Then, the writer took 96 student’s answer sheet which are divided into 8 classes as a sample of the research by using simple sampling.
Based on the analysis of this research, the English Summative test which was administered at SMAN 31 Jakarta are the writer found that there were 11 items (40%) categorized in the easy level, 12 items (48%) it can be categorized in the medium level, and there are 3 item (12) can be categorized in the difficulty level. The discriminating power there are 10 items (40%) accepted, there are 12 items (48%) should be revised, and there are 3 items (12%) rejected. Then, the effectiveness the options (effectiveness answer key, distracter and omit) is not effective to be used.
From the findings of the research, the writer concluded that the English summative test for the twelve grade students of the SMAN 31 East Jakarta in the second semester 2016/2017 academic year has not fulfilled the criteria of a good test.