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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
In this chapter, the writer presents conclusions and suggestions. After doing the research, the writer obtained some points of conclusions. This study also
needed suggestions in order to make improvement for the next research and for the teachers who want to apply the test designed by the writer.
A. Conclusions
In developing the test, this study employed five steps of R D cycle which were combined with Bachman’s and Palmer’s test development to answer
the problem formulations. The five steps of R D cycle used in this study were research and information collecting, planning, developing preliminary form of
product, preliminary field testing and main product revision. In addition, the writer combined R D cycle with Bachman’s and Palmer’s test development
which consisted of three stages: design, operationalization, and administration. The writer combined the first step of R D cycle, research and
information collecting with design, the first step of Bachman’s and Palmer’s test development by doing literature review and interview. Literature review and
interview were conducted to obtain information in order to make the design statement of the test. The design statement provided information needed to limit
the scope of the test. Then, the writer combined the second step of R D, planning with
selecting and specifying the materials of Bachman’s and Palmer’s test
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development by doing library study. This step resulted on the blueprint. The blueprint contained information of the test structure and test task specification of
the test. In the third step of R D developing preliminary form of product, the
writer combined with the developing and writing actual test tasks, writing instructions, specifying the procedures for scoring of Bahcman’s and Palmer’s test
development. This step resulted on the test and the instructions, the answer key and scoring and marking system. In this step, the second problem formulation had
been answered but the writer needed to improve the test. Therefore, the writer needed to do the fourth and fifth step of R D cycle in order to design a better
test. The fourth step of R D, preliminary field testing was combined with
administration of Bachman’s and Palmer’s test development. In this step, the writer conducted the test and distributed the questionnaire, collected the answer
sheets and the answer of the questionnaire, and then analyzed the validity of the test. The last step of this study was main product revision. After analyzing the
test, the writer made some revisions. The research result shows that the test made by the writer could be used as
an achievement test. This conclusion was drawn from the results of analyzing the validity of the test. There were three criteria of validity investigated by the writer:
face validity, content validity and construct validity. The results of face validity and content validity were obtained from the questionnaire given to the English
teacher of tenth grade Pangudi Luhur St. Yosef Surakarta Senior High School.
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From the questionnaire, it could be inferred that the test was well designed. In addition, the results of construct validity were obtained from the result of counting
item facility, item discrimination, and distractor efficiency. The result of counting item facility, item discrimination, and distractor efficiency shows that most of the
items of the test were valid to measure the students’ mastery on narrative reading texts. There were only three questions which the items should be revised because
the result of construct validity was not valid.
B. Suggestions
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