Nor, Hamidan (2009) An Analysis of the Difficulty Level and the Discriminating Power of English Test Items of the First Semester Examination at the Second Year Students of Junior High School “SMIP 1946” Banjarmasin Academic Year 2008/2009. Skripsi, Tarbiyah dan Keguruan.

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Hamidan Nor. 2009. An Analysis of the Difficulty Level and the Discriminating Power of English Test Items of the First Semester Examination at the Second Year Students of Junior High School “SMIP 1946” Banjarmasin Academic Year 2008/2009. Thesis, English Department, Tarbiyah Faculty. Advisors: (I) DR. H. Husnul Yaqin, M. Ed., (II) Dra. Andi Irlina, M. Hum. The teaching-learning process is a system. It consists of some components that each other interconnect and interact in reaching the target. One of those components is test. The quality or weakness of the test can be seen from some aspects, they are 1) validity, 2) reliability, 3) difficulty level, and 4) discriminating power. Moreover, if the teacher wants to revise the test, especially objective test, it should be detected by the difficulty level and the discriminating power of the test examined. This research is intended to know the difficulty level and the discriminating power of English test items of the first semester examination for the second year students of Junior High School “SMIP 1946” Banjarmasin academic year 2008/2009. The subject of the research are all of the second year students of Junior High School “SMIP 1946” Banjarmasin academic year 2008/2009 which consist of 39 students, while the object of this research is the difficulty level and the discriminating power of English test items of the first semester examination for the second year students of Junior High School “SMIP 1946” Banjarmasin academic year 2008/2009. The data of this research are collected data through documentary, observation and interview. All of the collected are processed through editing, classification, tabulating, and data presentation. The data are analyzed descriptively and quantitatively, and concluded deductively. The result of this research shows that generally the difficulty level of English test items of the first semester examination for the second year students of Junior High School “SMIP 1946” Banjarmasin academic year 2008/2009 is medium, that is not very difficult and not too easy. Its discriminating power is medium, namely only 62% categorize as good discriminating power, the rest is bad.

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