AN ANALYSIS OF DIFFICULTY LEVEL ON ENGLISH STUDENT WORKSHEET USED BY FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF PAKUKERTO II PASURUAN

摘要

Keyword : studentsÂ’ result, worksheet, difficulty levelududIn educational area, media has important role in achieving studentsÂ’ understanding of the material in teaching and learning process. Besides, media is also used to measure studentsÂ’ ability; one of them is a student worksheet. Nowadays, there are so many English student worksheets published by different publishers which are distributed to every level of education, for instance Elementary School, Junior High School, Senior High School, etc. It causes English teachers have more choices in selecting what student woksheets they are going to use. Every student worksheet has different level of difficulty and it can differenciate students who have high and less ability. This can be considered as difficult, easy, and also moderate level. Therefore, the teacher should be able to select a good student worksheet which is suitable for students. Teachers should have their own consideration based on the studentsÂ’ ability. They have to know the requirements or criteria of a good student worksheet before choosing which student worksheet they are going to use.ududIn this thesis, the researcher tried to investigate the difficulty level of studentsÂ’ result on student worksheet entitle Proaktif published by Media Pustaka that was used by fifth grade students at elementary school of Pakukerto II Pasuruan. This study used descriptive quantitative as the method. Furthermore, observation was employed in analyzing the level difficulty of studentsÂ’ result on Proaktif worksheet which was published by Media Pustaka. The findings showed that the studentsÂ’ result on Proaktif worksheet that was used by fifth grade students of elementary school had sufficient distribution of difficulty level, since the average difficulty level of the studentsÂ’ result is in the range of 0.30-0.70.