During the peer tutoring program in the classroom, the writer’s role was just as a
facilitator. If the students had questions, they asked to their tutor. The post-test was given at the end of the meetings in order to know the
difference achievement between the experiment class and controlled class. The form of the pre-test and post test is similar.
D. Instruments
The writer used test as an instrument of the research. The pre-test was given before the learning process. While the post-test was given after getting treatment in
order to know the different achievement between the experimental class and controlled class. The test consists of 20 questions of multiple choices. The test was
about simple past tense. It includes patterns of simple past sentences: positive, negative, and interrogative and also about regular and irregular verbs. The questions
are completing sentences and arranging the scrambled sentences into good order. The validity of a test is the extent to which it measures what it is supposed to
measure. This research uses content validity to check the validity of instrument. A test is said to have content validity if its content constitutes a representative sample of
the language skill, structure, etc. Content validity is concerned with what goes into the test.
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A content of the test should be decided by considering the purpose of the assessment and then draw up a list known as a content specification. The content
specification is important because it ensures as far as possible that the test reflects all the areas to be assessed in suitable proportion. The instrument is line with the
syllabus, as an evidenced in the following examples:
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J.B. Heaton,Writing English Language Tests, New York: Longman, Inc., 2003,p. 159.
Table 3.1 The Validity of the Instrument
StandarKomp etensi
Kompetensi Dasar
Skill Indikator
Nomor Soal Mengungkap
kan makna dalam teks
tulis fungsional
dan esei pendek
sederhana berbentuk
simple past tense
untuk berinteraksi
dengan lingkunganse
kitar Mengungka
pkan makna dan langkah
retrotika dalam esei
pendek sederhana
dengan menggunak
an ragam bahasa tulis
secara akurat.
lancar dan berterima
untuk berinteraksi
dengan lingkungan
sekitar berbentuk
simple past tense
Grammar Writing
Siswa mampu
mengide ntifikasi
keterang an waktu
past tense
berdasar kan
konteks kalimatp
ercakapa n
Siswa mampu
membuat kalimat
sederhan a dalam
bentuk simple
past tense
dengan benar.
15. When I came to Nina’s
house _________. she
was watching
Harry Potter.
a. tomorrow
b. last Sunday
c. next Sunday
d. now
11. My mother and I - in –
1 2 bought
– the market – 3 4
Some vegetables –
5 Yesterday morning.
6 7
a. 1-2-4-3-6-5-7
b. 1-2-4-5-3-6-7
c. 1-3-2-4-5-6-7
d. 1-3-5-2-4-6-7
This table is taken from the English syllabus for eighth grade of Junior High school.
