AN ANALYSIS OF TEST ITEMS OF THE ENGLISH FIRST-TERM TEST OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 10 YOGYAKARTA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2013/ 2014

摘要

This study is aimed at finding out the quality of the test item of the first – term test of the seventh grade students SMP Muhammadiyah 10 Yogyakarta in the academic year 2013/2014 which consists of 45 objective tests and 5 essay tests. The test item is analyzed based on the validity, reliability, difficulty index, and discrimination index.udThis research is classified into quantitative research. The data was collected from the test item, the key answer and the students’ answer sheet which are analyzed using Item and Test Analysis (ITEMAN). The participants of this study were the seventh grade students of SMPudMuhammadiyah 10 Yogyakarta.udThe results of the study show that: (1) based on the validity analysis, there are 75,56% of the test item which are valid, and 24,44% which are invalid, (2) reviewed from the reliability, the test item has reliability index 0,668 that is categorized as low reliability, (3) from the difficulty index, there are 28,89% items that difficult, 53,33% medium difficult, and 17,78% that categorized as easy, and (4) from the discrimination index analysis, there are 15,56% that have poor discrimation index, 17,78% have satisfactory discrimination index,24,44% have good discrimination index, and 42,22% that have excellent discrimination index (5) while from the distractor efficiency, there are 87% of the test items have excellent distractor efficiency and 13% which have good enough distractor efficiency. From the finding above, it can be concluded that the quality of the test items of English first term test of the seventh grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 10 Yogyakarta is poor.