Validity and Reliability of English Summative Tests at Junior High School in West Bandung

Haryudin, Acep

doi:10.22460/p2m.v2i1p77-90.167

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“…In contrast to those six previous studies, Haryudin (2015) found that the difficult items are more than other categories item. In their analysis of item difficulty, these previous researches point out that those test packages have more poor-constructed items than well-constructed items.…”

Section: Item Difficultycontrasting

confidence: 99%

“…Numerous studies have attempted to explain the item difficulty in relation to analyze the tests quality (for example Amelia, 2010;Maghfiroh, 2010;Ani, 2011;Risydah, 2014;Haryudin, 2015;Manfenrius et al, 2015;Maghfiroh, 2019;Pradanti et al, 2018). Some analysts, (e.g.…”

Section: Item Difficultymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Much of the previous studies emphasize the item discrimination analysis (for example, Toha, 2010;Lestari, 2011;Risydah, 2014;Haryudin, 2015;Manfenrius et al, 2015;Fajriah, 2016;Haryudin & Santosa, 2016;Pradanti et al, 2018;A. Maghfiroh, 2019).…”

Section: Item Discriminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previous studies have been conducted on the quality of English final semester tests, specifically in junior high school in Indonesia (for example Amelia, 2010;Maghfiroh, 2010;Toha, 2010;Ani, 2011;Lestari, 2011;Risydah, 2014;Haryudin, 2015;Manfenrius et al, 2015;Fajriah, 2016;Haryudin & Santosa, 2016;Pradanti et al, 2018;Maghfiroh, 2019). However, none studies conduct item analysis of English final semester tests for junior high school in Ponorogo district.…”

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Item Analysis of English Final Semester Test

Maharani

Putro

2020

IJEFL

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Numerous studies have been conducted on the item test analysis in English test. However, investigation on the characteristics of a good test of English final semester test is still rare in several districts in East Java. This research sought to examine the quality of the English final semester test in the academic year of 2018/2019 in Ponorogo. A total of 151 samples in the form of students’ answers to the test were analysed based on item difficulty, item discrimination, and distractors’ effectiveness using Quest program. This descriptive quantitative research revealed that the test does not have good proportion among easy, medium, and difficult item. In the item discrimination, the test had 39 excellent items (97.5%) which meant that the test could discriminate among high and low achievers. Besides, the distractors could distract students since there were 32 items (80%) that had effective distractors. The findings of this research provided insights that item analysis became important process in constructing test. It related to find the quality of the test that directly affects the accuracy of students’ score.

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Section: Item Difficultycontrasting

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Item Analysis of English Final Semester Test

Maharani

Putro

2020

IJEFL

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“…The result was in harmony with the result of Primadani (2013) and Haryudin (2015). The high reliability of the test was due to the number of items which were crucial for test reliability.…”

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The quality of an English summative test of a public junior high school, Kupang-NTT

Semiun

Luruk

2020

Engl. Lang. Teach. Educational. Journal

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This study aimed at examining the quality of an English summative test of grade VII in a public school located in Kupang. Particularly, this study examined content validity, reliability, and conducted item analysis including item validity, item difficulty, item discrimination, and distracter effectiveness. This study was descriptive evaluative research with documentation to collect data. The data was analyzed quantitatively except for content validity, which was done qualitatively. Content validity was analyzed by matching the test items with materials stated in the curriculum. The findings revealed that the English summative test had a high content validity. The reliability was estimated by applying the Kuder-Richardson’s formula (K-R20). The result showed that the test was reliable and very good for a classroom test. The item analysis was conducted by using ITEMAN 3.0. and it revealed that the the test was mostly constructed by easy items, most of the items could discriminate the students, most distracters were able to perform well, and the most of items were valid.

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Utilizing Test Item Analysis to Portray the Quality of English Final Test

Ningsih

Widowati

2021

Eng. Teach. J

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This study aims at describing the quality of the item test by analyzing the difficulty level, discriminating index, and distractor effectiveness of English final test item. The researchers use a descriptive quantitative as the research design. The population and sample of the study is the student’s answer sheets of the tenth grade of SMK PGRI Wonoasri. There are 22 student’s answer sheet as the primary data. The researchers use documentation technique and test kits of the English final test as the instrument. The data is analyzed by using classical theory measurement and item analysis’ formula. The result shows: (1) the level of difficulty which categorized as difficult is 35% (40 items), medium is 47% (19 items), and easy is 18% (7 items); (2) discrimination index that recommended for being rejected is 15% (6 items), accepted 38% (15 items), and not accepted is 47% (19 items); (3) distractor effectiveness which has functioning distractors as very good is 20% (8 items), good is 43% (17 items), fair 27% (11 items), and less good is 10% (4 items). In short, the quality and acceptance of test items of English final is medium or fair. So, there are still a lot of items need to be revised.

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Validity and Reliability of English Summative Tests at Junior High School in West Bandung

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Item Analysis of English Final Semester Test

Item Analysis of English Final Semester Test

The quality of an English summative test of a public junior high school, Kupang-NTT

Utilizing Test Item Analysis to Portray the Quality of English Final Test

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