The test blueprints: Listening items
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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
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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.