English Education Journal
Vol 7, No 4 (2016): English Education Journal (EEJ)

Analysis of summative tests for English

Rusma Setiyana (University of Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Nov 2016

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the quality of summative tests for English at MAN Boarding School Meulaboh I in terms of validity, reliability, difficulty index, discrimination index, and the effectiveness of distractors. Content analysis was employed in this study. Two techniques were carried out to collect the data, namely a checklist and document analysis. The data from the checklist was analyzed using statistical procedures and the data from the document analysis was analyzed using Anates software version 4. The results showed that the validity of the English summative tests at MAN Meulaboh I was on average either sufficient or poor since the percentages were below 72%. Secondly, the tests had a high and consistent degree of reliability. The index of difficulty was above 70%. Thirdly, 60% of the difficulty index in the test of the first grade, 48% in the second grade, and 8% in the third grade test were accepted. Fourthly, more than half of the discrimination index was good. In detail, good in the discrimination index of the test was 76% in the first grade, 56% in the second grade and 72% in the third grade. Finally, the effectiveness of distractors in the English summative test in the first grade was 53%, in the second grade was 67% and in the third grade was 50%. 

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EEJ

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

EEJ (English Education Journal) is a peer-reviewed and open access academic journal published by the Graduate Program of English Language Education, University of Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It presents the work/research of students and lecturers who are in the program. It is published four ...