An analysis of teacher-made English try-out test for national examination 2010-2011 for the third graders of MAN Sidoarjo

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Khoiro, Abidatul (2012) An analysis of teacher-made English try-out test for national examination 2010-2011 for the third graders of MAN Sidoarjo. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Testing is very important in the teaching learning process. It is to measure the ability of the students. The English try-out test has an important role in measuring the students' ability and to face national examination. Thus, the teacher in MAN Sidoarjo constructed the test by their teacher selves. This study was conducted to know the quality of the teacher-made English try-out test of MAN Sidoarjo. It aims to know the content validity, index of difficulty and index of discrimination of the teacher-made English try-out test for national examination 2010-2011 for the third graders of MAN Sidoarjo. The setting of the study was MAN Sidoarjo and the subject was the third class there is 40 students of Science class and 30 students of Social class. This study used descriptive method. The source of data in this study was documentation. The instrument was documents. The documents were applied in order to know the content validity, index of difficulty and index of discrimination of the teacher-made English try-out test. The result shows that the content validity of the teacher-made English try-out test of MAN Sidoarjo has good content validity since 52% items test covered the indicators of Standard of Graduates Competencies. The test has acceptable index of difficulty because the Science class have 60% items which are adequate items and Social class have 68% items which are adequate items. And the index of discrimination of the test is different between both of class. The result of Science class shows that 44% items can be used. It means that the test is unacceptable for the Science class. And the Social class has acceptable index of discrimination since 60% items has satisfactory and good criteria. From the finding and discussion, the suggestion for the test-maker and the teacher should analyze their own test, revise the items that too difficult and too easy and revise the poor and satisfactory item in order to discriminate between the students.