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Content Validity of the Summative Test at the Second Year Student of SMPN 86 Cilandak, Jakarta.
B. Limitation of the Problem
According to Suharsimi Arikunto, “Ada Empat cara yang digunakan untuk menilai kualitas soal yaitu dengan meneliti soal yang sudah disusun
untuk mengetahui kejelasan perintah atau bahasa, dengan mengadakan analisis soal, dengan mengadakan checking validitas, dan dengan checking reliabilita”.
There are four ways used to see the quality of test, they are; by checking the test items that have been arranged to know the clarity of construction or
language, by doing item analysis, by checking validity, and by checking reliability.
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Based on the statement above, the writer would like to see the quality of the test by checking the validity of the test items. She would like to analyze
the content validity of English summative test of the second year students of SMPN 86 Cilandak. So she limits the problem on the content validity of the
summative test and on indicators of reading.
C. Statement of the Problem The statement of problem in this study is as follow: “Does the Summative
Test at the Second Year Students of SMPN 86 Cilandak has Content Validity?
D. Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study is to describe whether a summative test of the second year students of SMPN 86 Cilandak has content validity. And the
result of this study is expected to give a description for the readers about an analysis of content validity toward the summative test. It also can be used as
an input for the readers; especially for the English teachers, the headmasters,
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Prof. Dr. Suharsimi Arikunto, Dasar-dasar Evaluasi Pendidikan, Ed. Revisi, Jakarta:Bumi Aksara, 2005, 205-206.
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and all people who are involved and responsible in developing quality of education. In other word, it is useful for all people to know the characteristics
of a good test and for the researchers as the basis for conducting further research.
E. Method of Study
Research methodology is the way to understand the object of the scientific main research.
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There are to patterns of research methodology, they are qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative research is concerned with rich
and detailed description, understanding and insight rather than measurement.
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It involves a researcher describing kinds of characteristic of people and events without comparing events in terms of measurements or amounts.
While Quantitative research focuses attention on measurement and amounts of the characteristics displayed by the people and events that
researcher studies.
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It involves collecting data from relatively large sample; the data collected are usually presented as numbers, often in tables, on graphs
and on charts.
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Based on the description above, the writer would like to use quantitative method in her research that she collects the data from analyzing
the test items with the curriculum.
F. Organization of the Study
