The Content Validity of the English Summative Test for the Eighth Grade Students of SMP IT Assa’adah AlChilashiyyah on the Second Semester in the 2022/2023 Academic Year

tri jaya suranto, a. dakir; drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd.;

Amanullah Al Ambary: 1701055061. “The Content Validity of the English
Summative Test for the Eighth Grade Students of SMP IT Assa’adah
AlChilashiyyah on the Second Semester in the 2022/2023 Academic Year”.
Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education, the Faculty of Teacher’s
Training and Education, the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA,
2023. The study objective is to find out the evidence of whether or not the
English test for the eighth-grade students in the second semester made by the
teacher of SMP IT Assa’adah AlChilashiyyah based on the English syllabus of
the curriculum. The author of this study employed a comparative descriptive
analysis strategy to identify content validity in a battery of end-of-year English
exams given to students at SMP IT Assa'adah AlChilashiyyah. It was done by
analyzing and comparing the test to the content of the English syllabus. The
instrument of the research used checklist forms arranged and based on
objectives and materials in the syllabus. The objectives and materials for
developing linguistic competence have been catalogued in checklist form. This
time around, the questions themselves would serve as the measuring sticks. The
findings of this research are English summative tests taught at SMP IT
Assa’adah Alchilashiyyah has 79% of the English content according to the
requirements of the English syllabus 2013 Curriculum. According to
Arikunto’s scheme of conformity level, the English summative test for eighthgrade
students at SMP IT Assa’adah AlChilashiyyah in the second semester of
the 2022/2023 academic year has a good level of content validity.