Several studies show the increase of radical attitudes among high school students in several regions in Indonesia. Developing a reliable instrument to measure religious moderation attitude is needed as a preventive effort to tackle this trend. However, a standard scale to measure the attitude in the context of Indonesia is extremely rare. This study aims to develop a Thusrtone scale of religious moderation attitude with the Equal Appearing Interval (EAI) method. There were 77 initial items constructed. Forty-two panelists from various relevant backgrounds were involved to assess the initial items. A number of 43 items was selected using the values of median (>6) and interquartile (≤4). The validity of the scale was tested using biserial correlation resulting 42 valid items and 1 invalid item. The result of reliability test using KR 20 technique showed that the scale is strongly reliable with a coefficient value of 0.98. The distribution of scale values on the 42 items of the selected statement lies on a scale value ranging from 1-11. Thus, the scale of religious moderation attitude has fulfilled the psychometric criteria as a measurement scale and can be used to measure students' religious moderation attitudes.Keywords: Thurstone scale, equal-appearing interval method, religious moderation. Abstrak: Beberapa hasil studi menunjukkan tingginya sikap radikal pada siswa Sekolah Menengah Atas (SMA) di beberapa daerah di Indonesia. Mempertimbangkan fenomena ini, diperlukan upaya preventif untuk mengatasi sikap radikal siswa. Salah satu upaya tersebut adalah dengan mengembangkan instrumen yang reliabel untuk mengukur sikap moderasi beragama. Pertimbangan mengembangkan skala ini dikarenakan belum tersedianya skala baku untuk mengukur sikap moderasi beragama siswa. Jenis skala yang dikembangkan adalah skala Thusrtone metode Equal Appearing Interval (EAI) Jumlah aitem awal pada skala ini disiapkan sebanyak 77 aitem. Panelis yang dilibatkan unuk menilai aitem awal sebanyak 42 orang. Analisis pemilihan aitem menggunakan nilai median dan interkuartil menghasilkan 43 aitem terpilih dengan nilai median >6 dan interkuartil ≤4. Pengujian validitas skala dengan  korelasi biserial menghasilkan 42 aitem valid dan 1 aitem tidak valid. Sedangkan uji reliabilitas menggunakan teknik KR 20 menghasilkan nilai koefesien 0.98 yang berarti sangat reliable. Distribusi nilai 42 aitem terpilih terentang dari 1-11. Skala sikap moderasi beragama ini terbukti memenuhi kriteria psikometrik sebagai skala pengukuran dan dapat digunakan untuk mengukur sikap moderasi beragama siswa.

Tujuan utama penelitian ini dilakukan adalah untuk menganalisis dan mendeskripsikan karakteristik khusus tes buatan guru Akidah Akhlak melalui pendekatan Item Response Theory (IRT) model Rasch. Jenis penelitian ini termasuk penelitian  kuantitatif deskriptif. Subjek pada penelitian ini berjumlah 67 pola respon siswa terhadap tes dengan lima alternatif jawaban. Perangkat tes buatan guru ini diambil dari hasil pelaksanaan Ujian Akhir Semester tahun pelajaran 2018/2019 melalui teknik dokumentasi. Analisis data kuantitatif dilakukan melalui pendekatan IRT model Rasch dengan bantuan software QUEST. Berdasarkan hasil analisis, dari 30 item terdapat 28 item fit dengan model Rasch dengan nilai OUTFIT t ≤ 2.00. Ditinjau dari tingkat kesulitan item, terdapat 7 item atau sebesar 25% dengan kategori sangat sulit. Item dengan kategori sulit sebanyak 6 item atau 21.4%, kategori item sedang sebanyak 2 item atau sebesar 7.14%, kategori mudah sebanyak 13 item atau sebesar 46.4%, dan 0% untuk kategori item soal sangat mudah. Rentang nilai tingkat kesukaran berkisar antara -2.94 sampai 4.18. Nilai reliability of item estimate sebesar 0.94 dengan kategori baik sekali dan nilai reliability of case estimate sebesar 0.38 dengan kategori lemah. Berdasarkan nilai reliability of case estimate, tes ini perlu dilakukan revisi agar sesuai dengan kemampuan peserta tes. Kata Kunci: Tes, Item Response Theory, Model Rasch

The purpose of this study to estimate the parameters in Clasical Test Theory (CTT) approach on Academic Ability Test Instrument new students of IAIN Syaikh Abdurrahman Siddik Bangka Belitung academic year 2018/2019. Data was collected through documentation techniques in the form of 425 sheets of student test answers. Based on the results of data analysis, it is known that the index of difficulty level in all problem fields has not shown a balance of comparison of easy, medium and difficult questions. The average questions are distributed in the medium category questions with a percentage of 25% easy questions, 51% medium questions, and 24% difficult questions. Distinguishing power index, in all question areas shows there are 37% of questions that are able to distinguish test takers 'abilities and as many as 18% questions are not able to distinguish test takers' abilities. While the effectiveness of distractors there are 239 or 79.6% functioning and there are 61 or 20.3% of the non-functioning distractors. The results of the validity analysis of 100 questions obtained 54% which have a coefficient of validity more than 1.59 and as many as 46% that have a coefficient value less than 1.59. For the overall reliability coefficient, a value of 0.81 is obtained. This means that 80% of the difference in scores obtained by test takers with others is their pure score difference or is not influenced by other factors as a source of error in the measurement.  Keywords: clasical theory test, test instruments.

There have been studies suggesting that students' reading comprehension in English subject is influenced by the accuracy of teaching strategy use. The use of appropriate teaching strategies is required to accommodate the diversity of students' abilities. Therefore, measurements are needed to provide actual information about students' abilities. This study aims to examine the levels of students' reading comprehension by using RASCH model. The subjects of this study were8th grade students, totaling 200 responses on the teacher's reading comprehension test with five alternative responses. The data analysis used was the Rasch 1 parameter model consisting of person reliability, item-person distribution maps, and item-person suitability. The findings of this study indicated that the average reading comprehension ability of students was included in the high category with a value (Meanperson) of 1.29 logits above the average level of difficulty of the test items (Meanitem) of 0. Further research is expected to be conducted to prove whether the addition of test items affect the value of person reliability.

The importance of measuring the efficiency of State Madrasah Aliyah in the Province of the Bangka Belitung is at least based on the low achievement of Madrasah output or National Examination scores. This shows that the implementation of Madrasah Aliyah in terms of input and output is still not efficient. This study aims to measure the efficiency of State Madrasah Aliyah in the Province of the Bangka Belitung Islands in the 2017/2018 and 2018/2020 academic years. This research uses a Data Development Analysis (DEA) approach and is a type of qualitative research with non-parametric statistical analysis. The results of the DEA analysis show that there are inefficient DMUs in the 2017/2018 – 2018/2019 academic year, namely, MAN 1 Bangka, MAN 1 Belitung, and MAN 1 Pangkalpinang. meanwhile, MAN 1 West Bangka and MAN IC Bangka Tengah are DMUs that have been consistently efficient in the 2017/2018 - 2018/2019 Academic Year. Several corrective steps can be taken by the inefficient DMU, such as, 1) reducing the amount of budget that is adjusted to the ideal number of students by 236, 2) DMU needs to build a strict student selection system to maintain the ideal number of students, 3) increase the quantity and quality of teachers who have been certified, and 4) maintain a teacher-to-student ratio of at least 1:16.