ITEM ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH FINAL SEMESTER TEST OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF SMAN 1 KUPANG

Abstract

This paper describes item analysis. Item analysis is important for the test because it
measures students ‘development or achievement. Test items are therefore needed to be reliable for that purpose. The problems of this writing are what are the difficulty levels, discrimination power of the English Final Semester Test of the third year students of the English Department of SMAN I Kuang of the Academic Year 2011/2012? To what
extent do the distracters of final test items function? With quantitative descriptive, the
writer tries to answer the problem. The result of the research shows that: the difficulties
level of the item given is ranged from too easy to too difficult. The items are 14, 4 items
are too difficult, and 22 items are accepted. Variation is needed in this kind of test, and
therefore the items in the test can be accepted as a measurement. The discrimination
level of the items given is ranged from the item is not too understood to discriminating.
The test given has some items contains distracter. Certain items, although not rightly
answered, has no disaster.