The Limitation of Study
temporary test, means that it only applies to certain situations because it is likely that the items or the capacity of the students will change.
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When a teacher creates his or her tests, she or he has a complete control over the format. However, it does
not mean that a teacher made test is always perfect. In fact, teacher made test still needs to be revised.
According to Dasar-dasar Evaluasi Pendidikan The Principles Basics for Evaluation in Education by Suharsimi Arikunto, there are four ways to check the
quality of the test items, they are; by checking the clarity of questions, by doing item analysis, by checking the validity and the last is by checking reliability of the
test. It is also written there “Item analysis is a systematic process, which provides
specific information to the item test that teacher has constructed ”.
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Meanwhile Ahmann and Glock states
“Item analysis is reexamining each item test to discover its strength hand flaws.
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From those two opinions, the writer concludes that item analysis is a systematic process in order to get specific information about the strength and
flaws of the test item. An item analysis tells about three things; first is to know how difficult each item is, the next is to know whether or not the test items have
ability to discriminate higher and lower students, and the last is to know whether or not the distracters have functions as they should. An analysis like this is used
with any important exam – for example, review test and test given at the end of
the school term or program.
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Throughout item analysis, the teacher will get specific data about item flaws and provide information to improve the test item.