Preliminary Field testing Main Product Revising

specifying the procedures for scoring the test. Therefore, in this step the writer made the test, answers, and scoring system.

4. Preliminary Field testing

The writer conducted preliminary field testing by doing a stage of administration Bachman’s and Palmer’s Test Development. Administration consisted of four activities: administering, collecting feedback, analyzing, archiving. In administering, the writer needed participants to solve the research problem. The participants are the students of tenth grade of Pangudi Luhur St. Yosef Surakarta Senior High School in 20092010 academic year as the test-takers and the English teacher of tenth grade students of Pangudi Luhur St. Yosef Surakarta Senior High School in 20092010 academic year to whom the questionnaire given. After that, the writer collected the students’ answer sheets and feedback from the English teacher as the data, this activity was involved in collecting feedback. From the data gathered, the writer would analyze the students’ answer sheet to investigate construct validity of the test through counting IF, ID, and distractor efficiency of the test’s items. Furthermore, the writer also analyzed the feedback from the questionnaire to investigate face validity and content validity. The data then would be interpreted into descriptive analysis.

5. Main Product Revising

Main product revision would be done if it was needed. The revision was made based on the result of validity investigation of the test, which obtained from the analysis of the students’ answer sheets and the questionnaire. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Finally, by doing the five process of R D cycle, the research problems could be answered. The data obtained from doing the research procedure would be called as research result. The writer would report and discuss the research results in Chapter IV. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 35

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

In this chapter, the writer presents research finding and elaborates the research finding into a discussion. In this research, the writer applied Research and Development cycle R D. The writer only used five steps of R D process because by doing those five steps the research problems has been answered. The five steps which were used by the writer are research and information collecting, planning, developing preliminary form of product, preliminary field testing, and main product revising.

A. How the Achievement Multiple-Choice Item Narrative Reading Test is

Designed 1. Research and Information Collecting In this first step, there were two main activities. They were interview and literature review.

a. Interview

The writer interviewed the teacher who taught the students of grade X of Pangudi Luhur St. Yosef Surakarta Senior High School as a participant on Tuesday, 20 th April 2010. By doing the interview, the writer obtained the data on the characteristics of the test takers see the design statement on page 36-37. The writer proposed some questions see the appendix 1 page 53 related to the students’ characteristics. The teacher explained that some students were PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI