Statement of the Problem Scope and Limitation of the Study The Purpose of the Study

teacher can get the general information about the students ability as whole by knowing the valid information about the 7th grade student‟s ability might help the teacher to find the suitable steps in treating students in class. From the reason above the writer conclude that this research is very important to be done because the English summative test in SMP N 87 Jakarta is oriented to measure the students ability whether the target of learning has been achieved or not. The teacher in this school also use the result of the English summative test in 7th grade as the standing point of view in treating the students for the next level. If these purpose of this test can not give the valid information so the test is also not valid. Based on the reason explaned above the writer is curlous whether “is there any content validity in English summative test for 7th grade students of SMP N 87 Jakarta?” From the problem above, the writer is interested in carry out the research related to how evaluate the content validity of the test items and the agreement between the summative tests with the curriculum. She will carry out the research for her “skripsi” in SMP N 87 Jakarta. Entitle: “AN ANALYSIS ON THE CONTENT VALIDITY OF THE ENGLISH SUMMATIVE TEST FOR THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL A CASE STUDY OF SMP N 87 JAKARTA ”.

B. Statement of the Problem

Based on the background described above, the writer is interested in analyzing the content validity of English summative test for the first year students of junior high school a case study of SMPN 87 Jakarta the general question of this research is “Does the English Summative test used at first year of the 7th grade students at SMPN 87 Jakarta have content validity or not?”

C. Scope and Limitation of the Study

The discussion of the study will be focused on the validity of the English summative test for the first year students of SMP N 87 Jakarta, and the validity that will be studied is content validity. As Marien H. Henerson‟ opinion in his book “ How To Measure Altitudes” he said content validity refers to representative ness of the sample of questions included in the instrument contains a set of items that sample the construct‟s various areas that give each its proportionate emphasis”. 5 Basically, then, content validity is concerned with whether or not the content of the test is sufficiently representative and comprehensive for the test to be a valid measure of what it is supposed to measure.

D. The Purpose of the Study

The purpose of this study is to describe whether or not the summative test for the first year students of SMPN 87 Jakarta has content validity. And the result of this study is expected to give a description for the readers about an analysis of content validity toward the summative test. it also can be used as an input for the readers; especially for the English teachers, the headmasters, and all people who are involved and responsible in developing good quality of test. In other word, it is useful for all people to know the characteristics of a good test and for the researchers as the basis for conducting further research.

E. Method of Study