Suparman, Ujang (2016) ANALYZING THE QUALITY OF ENGLISH TEST ITEMS OF DAILY, MID SEMESTER AND FINAL SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS IN BANDAR LAMPUNG: (ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION IN LANGUAGE TEACHING). In: International Conference On Educational Research & Evaluation, 29-30 May 2016, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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The problem of the current study is that the test items used to measure the objectives of the teaching and learning in the English (such as what happens in schools in Lampung Province), are rarely pre-determined before they are used, and the results of the test are also rarely analyzed systematically and professionally. Besides, few eachers of English are aware of the importance of good quality of test items such as validity, reliability, discriminating power and level of difficulty. Even some teachers consider that analyzing such matters is time consuming and hard to do. Consequently, they rarely analyze either the test items or the results of the test. The objective of the research is to potray some examples of quality of the test items after being analyzed using Iteman. The current presentation is based on a huge study using the iteman in English test items used in Elementary, Junior High and Senior High Schools in Lampung. It has been found that in general the test items has high validity, sufficient relaibility shown by the Alpha in each test used for each level, Standar Deviation, average mean of each item, and Mean Biserial (average mean of the whole test items). Besides, it has also been found that some items can be used directly without any revision; some need revision before being ussed; and even some others need dropping due to the quality of the test items. It is recomended that teachers, and instructors who test their students using multiple choice items should consider the quality of test items using one of standard technques such as the iteman software as an effective alternative for item test analysis because it is easy, fast, and comprehensive analysis to do. Key words: item quality, option quality, validity, reliability, descriminating power INTRODUCTION Evaluation plays a major role in education. It shows whether the objectives of the teaching and learning can be achieved or not. And in its turn, evaluation can be used to improve students‟ performance. Therefore, the instrument used should meet the criteria of a good test item (Suparman, 2013). However, the teachers are sometimes unaware of the importance of the quality of the test they use, consequently, some of them rarely test the instruments before they use them (see Suparman, 2013). This research

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions:	Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (FKIP) > Prodi Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User:	UJANG SUPA Ujang Suparman
Date Deposited:	05 Jun 2017 02:29
Last Modified:	05 Jun 2017 02:29
URI:	http://repository.lppm.unila.ac.id/id/eprint/3121

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