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1.4.5 to find out whether or not the answer of the test items are reliable.
1.5 The Significance of the Study
After doing the research, the writer hopes that the results of this writing will give the contributions dealing with the English language testing. The advantages that
can be gained from this study are as follows: 1.5.1
provide input for English teachers and for those who are concerned, especially for the writer themselves to be more careful in constructing
and conducting language testing and then they will pay more attention to the way of interpreting the results of the tests obtained by the testees. So
they can increase their skills in constructing test items. 1.5.2
the analysis of the English test items made by Senior High School teachers of SMA N1 Ambarawa describes the quality of that test. The
result can be used as an example in analyzing test items in the future.
1.6 Limitation of the Study
The test item that has been applied in the English test made by SMA N1 teacher for the year eleven students in the academic year 20082009 consists of 50 items
in the form of multiple choices and two items in essay. However, the writer only wants to analyze the multiple choice form. It is in the opinion that:
1.6.1 Multiple choice items have only one correct answer each. Thus, the grader
will grade the answers objectively.
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1.6.2 By using this type of test item, the reliability of the test can be computed
and determined with ease. Moreover, the item analysis of discriminating power and difficulty level of the test can be practically determined.
Beside that, the writer proposes some other limitations and assumptions for this study as follows:
1. The results of the test, no matter what it is like-will be the achievement of
students’ ultimate efforts which represents their real mastery. The writer then will analyse it in order to obtain an objective description on the
validity, reliability, and item analysis of the teacher made English test tested based on the representativeness of content standard.
2. The research will be limited to the analysis of the test items and on the
validity as well as computation of the reliability coefficient of the test items, not on their practicality.
1.7 Methods of Investigation
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