AN ANALYSIS ON THE ENGLISH MULTIPLE-CHOICE ITEM TEST FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS

Abstract

Abstract:This research concentrates on specific questions regarding the item validity, the test scores reliability, and item analysis in order to provide information that will lead to the improvement of test items construction. A descriptive method is applied to describe and examine the data. The research findings show that the test has fulfilled the criteria of having content validity. However the reliability value of the test scores is 0.67 which is categorized as unreliable. Through the item analysis, there are 11 items that are in need of improvement which are categorized "too easy" for the difficulty and "poor" for the discriminability. It means that almost 40% of the test items need to be revised as the items do not meet the criteria.

Keywords: itemtest, validity, reliability, item analysis

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Kata kunci: butirsoal, validitas, reliabilitas, analisisbutirsoal.