This research worked on the similar inductive analysis in investigating the validity of national final examination. Having worked with his own notes and
records on the test validity, the researcher confirmed his presumption in the results of preceding and subsequent interview and observation.
B. Research Participants
This research dealt with descriptive data that the researcher gathered from the document analysis and interviews. Since the subject of this research was the
national final examination for vocational high schools year 2007, the researcher himself conducted the document analysis. The focus of this research analysis was
on the validity of each test item in view of the curriculum being in use within the year. Since the focus of analysis was merely on one aspect of language tests, and
not on other aspects such as reliability and practicality, this research did not require test takers to be observed. Analyzing reliability, for instance, would
certainly call for a group of students who had completely engaged in the actual administration of national final examination to be retested. Retesting those
students would be a particular challenge for this research due to their unavailability either they had graduated or not. This research analysis of reliability
was therefore unfeasible and not recommended, considering that taking other group of students from different year would cause the research to deviate from its
objective. However, this research investigation on face validity called for other
people‟s opinion. Gathering opinion from those who have sufficient background
knowledge about language test validity might ease and thus benefited this research. Therefore, the researcher appointed five lecturers and ten students of English
Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University to give their opinion about the face validity of the national final examination. The researcher conducted
short interviews to them, showing a copy of national final examination document. In this short interview, the researchers simply threw two simple questions to the
interviewees. The first question was whether the 2007 national final examination for vocational high schools was, in their opinion, face valid. The second question
was why they thought that the national final examination was face valid or not face valid.
National final examination year 2007 for vocational high schools itself is divided into two parts, namely listening section and reading section. The former
section consists of 15 test items, which are put into four parts. The first part consists of three test items complete with a picture relevant to the question in each
number, whereas each of the other parts consists of four test items. Every of the listening part represents different levels of difficulty and ways of answering the
questions. The remaining section is divided into seven parts that vary in the levels of difficulty and comprehension. The readings in this section are varied from short
conversation, procedure, advertisements, short passages, to letters. The total number of the test items is 50.
C. Research Instruments
