An Item Analysis of English Summative Test for the Second Grade Students in a Second Semester at SMP Negeri 176 Jakarta 2016-2017 Academic Year

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Mirza Dwi Putri, An Item Analysis of English Summative Test for the Second
Grade Students in a Second Semester at SMP Negeri 176 Jakarta 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, 2017.
The purpose of the study is to know the quality of English summative test
for the second grade students in the second semester at SMP Negeri 176 Jakarta
2016-2017 academic year in term difficulty level or facility value, discriminating
power, and the effectiveness of options, to know the quality of the items, and to
know the items that should be accepted, revised, and rejected.
The respondents in this study were the second grade students of SMP
Negeri 176 Jakarta in the 2016-2017 academic year. The total numbers of students
were 180 students. The writer took two classess which consisted of 72 students
which the English summative test administered who were the English teacher
taught them. So, the sample were taken as a purposive sampling. By using the
item analysis procedure, they were ranked from the highest to the lowest. The
writer took 27% (19 students) from the highest score to the nineteenth rank score
as the upper group and 27% (19 students) from fifty third until seventy second
rank as lower group. The method that are used in this research are quantitative
qualitative descriptive method.
Good proportion items in difficulty level should have 25% (13 items) as
difficult item, 50% (24 items) as medium item, and 25% (13 items) as easy item.
Based on the data of difficulty level in this research, the writer found 1 (2%)
difficult item, as seen as good proportion of difficulty level items this difficult
item minus 12 items, 20 (40%) medium items or it is minus 4 items as a good
proportion items, and 29 (58%) easy items or it is plus 16 items as a good
proportion items. So, according to explanation above it can be concluded those
items are not match as a good proportion or those items are bad. Then, the
calculation of discriminating power, the writer finds 9 (18%) poor items that have
to be revised, and 41 (82%) are accepted items. Through the distribution the
effectiveness of options from 50 items there were 20 (40%) items as effective
category, 28(56%) items as less effective category, and 2(4%) items as
ineffective category. Based on the result of difficulty level, discriminating power,
and the effectiveness of option, it can be concluded that the English summative
test for the second grade students in the second semester of the SMP Negeri 176
Jakarta in 2016/2017 academic year have not fullfilled the criteria of a good test.