students cannot demonstrate skills that they posses if they are not tested. Second, irrelevant items are presented that the students will likely answer incorrectly only
because the content was not taught. The effect of that are lower test scores because there is no relation between test item with material learnt to achieve
instructional objective. Therefore, the writer would do an analysis on the content validity on the research title
“An analysis on Content Validity on Student’s English Summative Test Items
”.
B. Identification of the Problem
Based on the background of the study, the writer identifies some problems: 1.
There are problems on the test item materials existed on the summative test that have not been taught yet.
2. There are problems on most of the question items written by the teachers
for summative test which are inappropriate with the characteristic of a good test.
3. The test is not measure what supposed to be measured.
4. A Test, which does not have content validity, complicates the students to
answer the test questions.
C. Limitation of the Study
To make this writing easier to be understood, the writer limits the study as follow:
a The research focused only on the content validity of English final test
summative test of the even semester at the second grade academic year of 20122013.
b The research focused only on reading and writing skills because the
summative test consists of multiple choice and essay items. c
The test to be analyzed is the English summative test for the second grade students at Junior High School of “Al-Amanah”.
d The syllabus to be used is the syllabus which was made by the teacher
referenced to the latest curriculum.
D. Formulation of the Study
Based on the background of the study, the writer formulated the problem whether each test items of the summative test for the second grade students of
Junior High School of “Al-Amanah” represent the indicators as suggested its syllabus as an indicator of the content validity.
1. Is the English final test in line with the syllabus that is constructed by Al-
Amanah school? a.
How appropriate is the English final test with the indicator of the syllabus?
b. How is the distribution of the indicator of the syllabus in the test?
E. Objective of the Study
