The Techniques of Data Analysis

40 Bad To increase our insight, the writer did the interview with the English teacher. The interview was done to know more information how to make a good English test. This interview was conducted on Thursday, January 28 th , 2010 at 10.00 in the English teacher’s office and the research informant was the English teacher in MTs Annajah. It also was conducted to confirm the data collected from English summative test. The interview can be seen in the appendices clearly. The Findings of the Research and the Discussions

1. The Description of the Data

The writer analyzed the test items whether they are in line with the latest English syllabus administrated at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Annajah. The data analyzes such as question sheets, blue print of the questions, English syllabus, English curriculum, and the English teacher as a test designer for the first grade students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah Annajah to be further analyze see appendices. The data that the writer used in this study is the English summative test for even semester, which is called as “Evaluasi Hasil Belajar”, the 20082009 academic year for the first grade students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah Annajah Petukangan. Based on regulation about the standard of educational evaluation established by minister of National Education no. 20, 2007, the summative test of particular semester must be constructed based on the some indicators which should be achieved at that semester. Because of that, the summative test of the first grade students of Madrasah Tsanawiyah Annajah Petukangan was constructed based on particular indicators. The total number of the test items is 45 items which consist of 40 multiple choice and 5 essay test items. The test was held on Friday, June 19 th 2009 with the given time 90 minutes. The test was developed by the English teacher in Madrasah Tsanawiyah Annajah Petukangan. The following table describes the total frequency of the appropriateness and the inappropriateness of English summative test items with indicators in the latest English syllabus. Based on the data of items analysis result, we can see the table as follow see appendices, page. 64-67: Table 3.2 The Appropriateness of English Summative Test with the Indicators in the Latest English syllabus at Even Semester of the First Grade Students at MTs Annajah No Based on Indicators in the English Syllabus Items Number Total 1. Reading Identifying some information in short functional text in term of instruction, list of things, congratulation, announcement 2. Identifying the topicmain idea in descriptiveprocedure text 1, 29 2 Items 3. Identifying detail information from the text 2, 3, 14, 15, 27, 41 6 Items 4. Determining suitable quantifiers in the sentence 21, 22 2 Items 5. Identifying rhetorical steps in descriptiveprocedure text 17, 30 2 Items 6. Identifying communicative purpose in descriptiveprocedure text 28 1 Item 7. Denoting linguistic features in descriptiveprocedure text 8. Writing Writing in short functional text in term of instruction, list of things, congratulation, announcement