An Item Analysis of The English Summative Test for The Eighth Grade Students at SMP UTAMA Bintaro Tangerang Selatan in 2019/2020 Academic Year

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Angga Dwi Rastika. 1601059012. An Item Analysis of The English Summative Test for The Eighth Grade Students at SMP UTAMA Bintaro Tangerang Selatan in 2019/2020 Academic Year. A Paper, the Study Programme of English Education, the School of Teachers‟ Training and Education, the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA. Jakarta. 2020
The objective of the study was to find out whether the English summative test items for eight-grade students at SMP UTAMA Bintaro Tangerang Selatan has good or not in terms of difficulty level, discriminating power, and the effectiveness of distractors. This research was administered at SMP UTAMA BINTARO Pondok Aren for eighth grade students on first semester year 2019-2020. The English summative test consists of 40 multiple choice items and 5 essays. For practical purpose, the writer simply analyzed multiple choices. This research uses quantitative and qualitative analysis as the methods. Quantitative method is used to establish the facility value, discriminating power and the effectiveness of distractor. Qualitative analysis is used to analyze the cause of the weakness of the test items. The result of quantitative analysis will be used for identifying the weak items that need revision. The respondents of this research were the students of 2 classes. It was consists of 60 students. The respondents were divided into two groups; who got the highest score is upper group and the lowest score is lower group. From each group the writer only took 25% or 15 students. This research showed that the item of multiple choices consists of 40 items. 12 items should be revised, 6 items were discarded, and 22 items have good quality. From that information, it was concluded the English Summative test which was administered in SMP UTAMA BINTARO Tangerang Selatan can be categorized as a good test.