The test blueprints: Listening items

35 interpret the meaning of words, phrases, and statement based on context. 8 to find out the communicative purpose of the text. 9 to find out the organizational of the text . The reading test on the Progress test was analyzed based on the formulation objectives states above. The results are presented in the Table 4.3. Table 4.3: The Test Blueprints of the reading test of Progress Tests Distribution of the Progress test items Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 No Test Construct Number of items Number of items Number of items Number of items 1 To find out particular information. 4 80 5 100 4 30.8 - 0 2 To interpret the meaning of words, phrases, and statement based on context. 1 20 - 0 9 69.2 10 100 The table shows that Progress tests are intended to measure the ability of reading. There are 80 of the total reading items in progress test 1 that are intended to find out particular information while there are 20 of the total reading items in progress test 1 that are intended to interpret the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences.. There are 100 of the total reading items in progress test 2 that are intended to find out the particular information. There are 30.8 of the total reading items in progress test 3 that are intended to find out particular information while there are 69.2 of the total reading items in progress test 3 that are intended to interpret the meaning of 36 words, phrases, and sentences. There are 100 of the total reading items in progress test 4 that are intended to interpret the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences. In the reading test of Progress Tests six objectives were not tested. They are to find general information of the text, to find out the explicitly main idea, to find out the implicit main idea , to find out all the explicitly detailed information, to find out the implicitly stated information, to find out the communicative purpose of the text, and to find out the organizational of the text. According to Hughes 1989: 23, the more likely it is to be inaccurate measure of what is supposed to be measured. Therefore in the future, the test writer should concern about the absence of those objectives to build with good content validity.

4.2.4. Writing items

The writing indicators stated in English Competency Based Curriculum pages 16-29 can be formulated into three objectives of writing. They are 1 to write daily communication text. 2 to write a text in various forms 3 to demonstrate the basic competence of grammar and the rule of writing. The writing test on the Progress test was analyzed based on the formulation objectives states above. The results are presented in the Table 4.5 on the next page: Table 4.5: The Test Blueprints of the writing test of Progress Tests Distribution of the Progress test items Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 No Test Construct Number of items Number of items Number of items Number of items 37 1 To demonstrate the basic competence. 15 100 10 100 5 100 5 100 The table shows that Progress tests are intended to measure the ability of writing. There are 100 of the total writing items in progress test 1 that are intended to demonstrate the basic competence of grammar and the rule of writing. There are 100 of the total writing items in progress test 2 that are intended to demonstrate the basic competence of grammar and the rule of writing. There are 100 of the total writing items in progress test 3 that are intended to demonstrate the basic competence of grammar and the rule of writing. There are 100 of the total writing items in progress test 4 that are intended to demonstrate the basic competence of grammar and the rule of writing. In the writing test of Progress Tests two objectives were not tested. They are to write daily communication text and to write a text in various forms. According to Hughes 1989: 23, the more likely it is to be inaccurate measure of what is supposed to be measured. Therefore in the future, the test writer should concern about the absence of those objectives to build with good content validity.

4.3. The test types In order to find out the test types, the progress tests were analyzed based on