The Characteristics of a Good Test

17 certain standards, so that the results can give beneficial things for student’s mastery of certain competency”. The main competence that will be achieved is discourse competence. In this competence, students are able to involve themselves in a text when they are communicating. A text means a communication that is effected by the topic being discusses interpersonal relationship among the speakers, and communication way in the culture context. The achievement of this competence is supported by Linguistic competence, Socio cultural competence and Strategic competence. In addition, in the process of teaching learning, the Competency Based Curriculum emphasizes three domains. They are cognitive, psychomotor, and affective. There are some ponds of the CBC English Syllabuses as stated in the 2004 curriculum 2002: 6 -7: 1. Definition of the Competency Based Curriculum English is a means of oral and written communication. In this term, communication aims to understand and express the information, thought, feeling, and developing science, technology, and culture using the language. 2. Functions and Aims In the contexts of education, English is functioned as a communication tools to access information. In the daily context, it is functioned as a means to build interpersonal contact, change information and enjoy the esthetic of English language culture. The aims of English subject: 18 2.1.Improve communication skill in the target language in the form oral and written. The communication skill consists of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. 2.2.Raise the awareness of the essential and the importance of English language as one of the foreign language as the main tool of learning process. 2.3.Develop the understanding of the relationship between language and culture and enlarge the knowledge of the culture. Therefore, the students will have the knowledge across to culture and involve in the culture diversity. 3. Scope The scopes of English subject are: 3.1.Language skills that consist of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. 3.2.Sub-competency that consists of language competence, linguistic competence, strategy competence. 3.3.Development of positive attitude through English language as a means of communication. 4. Approach The process of learning language is directed to the achievement of competence that can be seen in the students skill to do the steps of communication. They are called speech act, speech function or language function. The approach is not “let’s talk about something” but rather than “let’s to do something with language”. 19

2.1.7. The objectives of the English Competency based Curriculum

The curriculum states that the aim of teaching English is to enable the students’ posses the skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Those four language skills should be presented integrative through themes, which have been selected based on the students’ interest and students’ vocabulary mastery. In addition, the emphasis of this curriculum in the language skills, the language elements such as structure, vocabulary, and pronunciation are taught to support the mastery of the four language skills. The reading indicators stated in English Competency Based Curriculum pages 16-29 can be formulated into nine objectives of reading. They are 1. to find out particular information. 2. to find general information of the text. 3. to find out the explicitly main idea. 4. to find out the implicit main idea. 5. to find out all the explicitly detailed information. 6. to find out the implicitly stated information. 7. to interpret the meaning of words, phrases, and statement based on context. 8. to find out the communicative purpose of the text. 9. to find out the organizational of the text. The writing indicators stated in Competency Based Curriculum pages 16-29 can be formulated into three objectives. They are 1. to write daily communication text. 2. to write a text in various forms 20 3. to demonstrate the basic competence of grammar and the rule of writing. The speaking indicators stated in Competency Based Curriculum pages 16 - 29 can be formulated into four objectives. They are 1. to ask and answer simple question in various thing. 2. to do short dialogue fluently. 3. to convey the description of things, people or place, a set of moment in simple way. 4. to express the thought, opinion, feeling, and attitude in simple way. In this study, all items in the progress test should relate to the objectives of skills indicator in the Competency Based Curriculum for the first year students of Senior High School.

2.1.8. A Test Blueprint

Ebel 1979: 69 states a test blueprint is one of the strategies that have been used to outline the coverage of test, as part of specification. It is useful in guiding the construction of a test and informing the students what they may expect to find on the examination and how they can best prepare to do well on it. It means that test blueprint is the framework of the test.

2.1.8.1 The Purpose of Test Blueprint

Mehrens and Lehmans 1973: 181 state that the purpose of test blueprint is to define as clearly as possible the scope and emphasis of the test and relate the objectives to the content of the test. The blueprint makes it possible to classify each