B. The Limitation of Problem
To make this writing easier to understand, the writer limits the study as follow:
a. This writing is limited on the difficulty level of English summative test
item at the second grade students of SMP YMJ Ciputat.
b. The research is focused on the summative English at the second grade students of SMP YMJ Ciputat at the odd semester of the 2009-2010
academic year.
C. Formulation of Problem
There are three characteristics usually considered in the field of test and measurement, there are the level of difficulty, discriminating power and the
effectiveness of distracter.
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The point of this discussion, the writer intends to see the quality of test items only by doing item analysis that focus on level of
difficulty. The test item will be analyzed is an objective test of English summative test used at second grade students of SMP YMJ Ciputat, and she formulates the
problem as follow: “Are the English summative test items administered at the second grade students
of SMP YMJ Ciputat qualified as a good test item seen from the level of difficulty?”
D. The Significance of Study
The result of this study are expected to give useful information about the
level of difficulty in English summative test item at the second grade students of SMP YMJ Ciputat.
E. The Assumptions
SMP YMJ Ciputat has administered the test in Summative test academic year 2009-2010 in the odd semester, but the result is still low. Based on the
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Asmawi Zaenul dan Noehi Nasution, Penilaian Hasil Belajar, Jakarta: UT, 2001, p. 173.S
limitation and formulation of the problem of this research, the writer assumption’s that, the test which have been tested in the second grade students at SMP YMJ
Ciputat has qualified as a good test seen from the difficulty level of the items.
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