Pebriani, Mahdiyati (2018) Analysis of a midterm English test for the 5th grade students of SDN Glagahsari 1 / Mahdiyati Pebriani. Diploma thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.
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v SUMMARY Pebriani Mahdiyati. 2018. Analysis of a Midterm English Test for the 5th Grade Students of SDN Glagahsari 1. Thesis English Language Teaching Program Faculty of Letters Universitas Negeri Malang. Advisors (I) Dr. Sintha Tresnadewi M.Pd. (II) Dr. Furaidah M.A. Keywords Teacher-made test midterm English test item analysis The purpose of conducting this study was to evaluate the quality of a midterm English test of the 5th grade students of SDN Glagahsari I academic year 2016/2017. The principles and the rules used to evaluate the test in this study are the criteria of a good test that should be fulfilled in order to be a good tool in measuring and assessing students ability. The requirements which become the focus in this study are content validity face validity practicality reliability item difficulty item discrimination and the effectiveness of distractors. The research design used in this study is descriptive evaluative research. Qualitative and quantitative analysis methods are used in evaluating the quality of the test. The data are the midterm English test and the students answer sheets. The data are manually calculated with the help of Microsoft Excel Program. Based on the result of the analysis the English test of 2nd semester grade V has low content validity only ten items (22 %) of total item cover the materials stated in the curriculum twenty nine items (64.44 %) which match with the basic competence in measuring the knowledge and only ten items (22.22 %) which match with the basic competence in measuring the students skills. Second the face validity is considered good. Third the test is considered to be practical. Fourth the test has high reliability since the reliability coefficient of the test is .87. Fifth the difficulty level of the test is considered to be easy since most of the test items have easy difficulty index. Sixth the index discrimination of this study can be concluded to be low because there are only eleven items (24.44 %) of the test items which have very good discrimination index. Seventh the distractors of the items are mostly ineffective. Last after summarizing the result of item analysis there are several items that must be changed with better items since they do not meet the principles and the criteria of a good test item. To sum up a midterm English test of grade V in the 2nd in SDN Glagahsari 1 academic year 2016/2017 is considered to have good reliability and face validity but it performs badly in item analysis. Considering the quality of the test it is important for the teacher as the test constructor to know vi how to analyze and evaluate the test so that a good test can be constructed. The test that has been constructed by the teacher should be tried out and analyzed first before it is administered. So the test can measure the real ability of the students.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Diploma) |
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| Subjects: | ?? ?? |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S1 Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Users 2 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2018 04:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2018 03:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/244808 |
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