AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH SUMMATIVE TEST OF TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT A SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN INDONESIA

Abstract

Evaluation is the activity to control and guarantee the education quality due to the teaching and learning process. A good test is known to have main characteristics, such as validity, reliability, level of difficulty, discriminating power, and administration. Item analysis is the answer. The research applied a descriptive quantitative and qualitative approach because it tries to describe content validity, reliability, level of difficulty, and discriminating power of the English summative test made by the teacher. The sample of was the English summative of the tenth-grade student at SMAN 9 Banjarmasin academic year 2019/2020. The findings show that the English summative test was in a low category of validity because test items were not relevant to the content of K-13. The reliability was in the medium category (0,554). The level of difficulty was in the easy class. Lastly, the discrimination power showed that 52% of the test items were in poor category and suggested to be revised. Based on the findings, the test maker should arrange the test item based on the learning objectives of the other English skills and more practice in making good test items to measure the students' ability in the teaching and learning process.