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Table 4.1: The Frequency Distribution of Progress test items
4. 2. Results
This research deals with what the blue prints are and what the English test type of the progress test items related to the objectives stated in the Competency
based Curriculum. To answer those two problems, this research employed a document analysis on the progress test items. The two problems are analyzed below
in detail. The Competency based Curriculum; language is a vehicle of communication. The curriculum is meant to help students using language in the
process of interaction in the society. Students do not learn the language merely, but they use the language as a means of learning something Depdikbud, 2003. In the
process of learning activities, it includes then four skills. After a period of time of learning activities, there are some tests that are
given to the students. One of the tests discusses in this research is progress test. It is viewed that progress test is a kind of test which is used to evaluate the performance
of the students after a certain period of time in learning English. By conducting these tests, the teachers may evaluate the teaching-learning process that happens in the
Distribution of the Progress test items Test 1
Test 2 Test 3
Test 4
N o
Language Skill
Number of
items Number
of items
Number of
items Number
of items
1
Listening
5 19.2 10 38.5 - - 10 38.5
2
Speaking
1 3.8 1 3.8 8 30.8 1 3.8
3
Reading
5 19.2 5 19.2 13 50 10 38.5
4
Writing
15 57.8 10 38.5 5 19.2 5 19.2
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class, the curriculum designers may get input for such an improvement in the curriculum, the government can also achieve the result to get a description of its
human resources for sake the country’s development Pakpahan, 2004. The test blueprint of test is very important since it is the framework of the
test. It may contribute the test makers a wider view of test blueprint. Considering the test blueprint, next, they may construct a text with appropriate requirement so that
they may produce a test with good characteristics.
4.2.1. The test blueprints: Listening items
In order to find out the test blueprints, the progress tests were analyzed based on Competency based Curriculum as the basis of test construction. There are six
listening objectives in the Competency based Curriculum. They are 1 to find out the general information of the short spoken text
, 2 to interpret the meaning of a statement,
3 to find out the communicative purpose of the short spoken text, 4 to complete the form, chart, and map based on the gathered information of the spoken
text, 5 to give response to the expression of the spoken question or statement, 6 to
predict the further story of the spoken text. The listening test of the Progress test was
analyzed based on those objectives, and the results are presented in Table 4.2. on the
next page:
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Table 4.2: The Test Blueprints of the listening Test of Progress Tests
Distribution of the Progress test items Test 1
Test 2 Test 3
Test 4 No Test
Construct
Number of
items Number
of items
Number of
items Number
of items
1
To complete the form,
chart, and map based on the
gathered information of
the spoken
text
5 100
- -
-
2
To find out particular
information in the simple
spoken text.
- 0 9 90 - 0 10 100
3
To find out the general
information of the short
spoken text.
- 0 1 10 - 0 - 0
The table shows that Progress tests are intended to measure the ability of listening. There are 100 of the total listening items in progress test 1 that are intended to
complete the form, chart, and map based on the gathered information of the spoken text.
There are 10 of the total listening items in progress test 2 that are intended to find out the general information of the short spoken text
while there are 90 of the total listening items in progress test 2 that are intended to find out particular
information in the simple spoken text. There are 100 of the total listening items in
progress test 3 that are intended to find out particular information in the simple spoken text.
In the listening test of Progress tests three objectives were not tested. They are to interpret the meaning of a statement, to give response to the expression of the
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