Technique of Data Collecting

30 CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS

A. Description of Data

The data which is used by the writer is the English summative test in the second grade of “SMP Al Wathoniyah 09” East Jakarta. This English summative test was held on Tuesday, June 10 th 2014, that must be finished in 120 minutes. The total numbers of test items are 50 questions, which all of them are multiple choices. The total numbers of students that took part in this analysis are 48 students. Anas Sudijono in the book “Pengantar Evaluasi Pendidikan” demonstrated that the selection of criterion groups “based upon the upper 27 percent and lower 27 percent of the provided by the greatest confidence that the upper group is superior in the trait measured by the test as compared to the lower group. ” 1 The middle 46 percent of the papers is not used when 27 percent in the upper and 27 percent in the lower groups are employed in item analysis. Based on the statement, the writer classified the students into three groups; upper, middle and lower group. The writer took only 27 of the lower group and 27 of the upper group for this analysis. And the rest students that belong to the middle group will not take part to this analysis. The next table is the students’ scores and group position in English summative test. 1 Anas Sudijono, Pengantar Evaluasi Pendidikan, Jakarta: PT. RajaGrafindo Persada, 2011, p. 387. 31 Table 4.1 The Students’ Scores and Group Position of English Summative Test In the Second Semester No Name Score Explanation 1 Number One 6.40 U P P E R G R O U P 2 Number Two 6.40 3 Number Three 6.20 4 Number Four 6.20 5 Number Five 6.00 6 Number Six 5.80 7 Number Seven 5.60 8 Number Eight 5.20 9 Number Nine 5.00 10 Number Ten 5.00 11 Number Eleven 5.00 12 Number Twelve 5.00 13 Number Thirteen 4.80 14 Number Fourteen 4.80 M I D D L E G R O U P 15 Number Fifteen 4.80 16 Number Sixteen 4.60 17 Number Seventeen 4.60 18 Number Eighteen 4.60 19 Number Nineteen 4.60 20 Number Twenty 4.60 21 Number Twenty One 4.60 22 Number Twenty Two 4.40 23 Number Twenty Three 4.40 24 Number Twenty Four 4.40 25 Number Twenty Five 4.40 26 Number Twenty Six 4.40 27 Number Twenty Seven 4.20 28 Number Twenty Eight 4.20 29 Number Twenty Nine 4.20 30 Number Thirty 4.20 31 Number Thirty One 4.00 32 Number Thirty Two 4.00 33 Number Thirty Three 4.00 34 Number Thirty Four 4.00