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the instrument the materials were arranged suitable for the third grade students of SLTP Institute Indonesia in the academic year of 20052006.
3.4 Preparation of Test
3.4.1 Test Items
The research instrument was the test consisting of 111 items. According from the teacher in SLTP Institut Indonesia, the writer get suggestion to chose
the types in mastery of question tags. It is based on the handbook that used in the class and from the average result in the class in master of question tags. So, in this
study they were divided into 4 types of possible students’ mastery of the question tags. She classified the mastery level of question tags as follows:
a. Their achievement in identifying ‘do’ and ‘does’ in Simple Present Tense
statement; b.
Their achievement in identifying ‘did’ in Simple Past Tense statement; c.
Their achievement in identifying ‘am’, ‘are’, ‘is’, in Present Continuous Tense statement;
d. Their achievement in identifying ‘was’ and ‘were’ in Past Continues Tense
statement. Based on the types of possible errors above, the writer then made the
proportion of the test items as in the following table. The table can be seen on the next page.
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Table 1. The proportion of test items of
the profile of students mastery of questions tags
Coverage Appearance at the references
Percentage Portion Understanding
Using English
Grammar Let’s talk
Simple present tense
statement with
- do - does
15 15
12 25
27 x 100 = 14,4
188 40 x 100 =
24,3 188
15 25
Simple past tense
statement with
- did
10 7
17 x 100 = 9,5 188
10 Present
continues tense with
- are - is
16 15
12 17
28 x 100 = 15,9
188 32 x 100 =
17,0 188
16 20
Past continues
tense statement
- was - were
8 15
10 11
18 x 100 = 9,6 188
26 x 100 = 13,8
188 10
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Total 97 + 91
= 188
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3.4.2.Arrangements of Test items
After classifying the errors into those types and the proportion of the test items the writer then arranged the outlines of the test items as in the following
table: Table 2 . The outline of the test items on the mastery of question tags
Coverage Numbers of item
Total
Simple present tense statement with
- do
- does
1,4,18,25,31,34,46,47,65,70,85,86,96,104,108 5,6,10,12,13,20,21,24,30,32,43,44,45,48,66,69,71
87,88,94,95,101,103,105,107 25
Simple past tense statement with
- did 80,89,90,91,93,56,57,60,77,81
10 Present continues tense
statement with -
are -
is 11,16,36,49,50,51,64,72,73,84,3,22,37,38,58,106
2,8,9,14,19,26,27,28,29,33,35,39,40,41,42,59,62, 67,68,79
16 20
Past continues tense statement with
- was
- were
7,17,23,55,61,76,82,92,100,110 15,52,53,54,63,74,75,78,83,97,98,99,102,109,111
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3.4.3 Try Out test Before the test was used as instrument to collect the data from the
