Zakiyah , 2201414151 (2019) ITEM AND RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SECOND SEMESTER FINAL TEST FOR EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 2 SEMARANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

A test is used to measure students’ achievement in a certain period. By testing, the teachers will know their students’ understanding, or difficulty of their teaching learning process at that time, so they can improve their teaching method, media, material, and assessment. Beside that, a test must be a good measure tool to identify the students’ achievement well. Therefore, the test had to be limited errors as small as possible by trying out to reveal the characteristics of multiple choice test. The aim of this study was to reveal the characteristics of English second semester test of the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Semarang in the academic year 2017/2018. The characteristics of the multiple choice test are item difficulty, item discrimination, alternatives which are answer key and distractor, and reliability. In conducting this study, descriptive analytic and quantitative method were used to reveal the characteristics of the multiple choice test. The data analysis technique used the Item and Test Analysis Program (ITEMAN) version 3.00. The subject of this study was the eighth grade students of SMPN 2 Semarang (287 students as population and 60 students as sample taken by random sampling). The data was obtained from an interview with the English teacher of SMPN 2 Semarang and the head of English MGMP Sub Rayon 01 East Semarang. Furthermore, the documents used in this study were English second semester test papers, answer key and students’ answer sheets. The result of this study showed that: (1) The item difficulty attained 23 items (57.5%) which were considered as easy category, 12 items (30%) as medium category, 5 items (12.5%) as difficult category. (2) The item discrimination attained 9 items (22.5%) which were considered as bad category, 9 items (22.5%) as sufficient category, 17 items (42.5%) as good category, 5 items (12.5%) as excellent category. (3) Based on the alternatives, the English second semester final test had 65 ineffective distractors and 55 effective distractors. The items which had all of the effective distractors was just 7 items. For answer keys, there were 2 answer keys of 40 answer keys which should be cross-checked. They were item number 3 and item number 38. (4) The reliability of the test was 0.717. By analyzing the characteristics of the multiple choice test, the teachers as test maker would produce a trusted test to measure the students’ achievement accurately and improve their teaching learning method.

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