An analysis of essay test on English final test for grade eleven students of SMAN I Lamongan

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Faradillah, Ita (2012) An analysis of essay test on English final test for grade eleven students of SMAN I Lamongan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study aims to know what is Essay Test on the English Final Test for Grade Eleven of SMAN I Lamongan like in the term of content validity, index difficulty, and index discrimination. The process of design this study is through documentation and it used descriptive research to describe the quality of English Final Test for Grade Eleven Students of SMAN I, Lamongan. It only focuses on the quality of Essay Test. this study is also uses numerical calculation to compute the data. While the samples are XI IPA 5 and XI IPA 6, they are taken by random sampling. The result of this study describes that essay test used by Grade Eleven Students of SMAN I Lamongan has good validity of content. While index of difficulty and index of discrimination describe different result for those two classes. Index of difficulty for those XI IPA 5 is acceptable, but for XI IPA 6 the test is recognized too difficult. Besides, index of discrimination for XI IPA 5 class is satisfactory since the result is distant from zero point. The malfunction result shows for XI IPA 6 class, it means that the test for this class should be revised to distinguish between the more able students to the less able.