The Quality Of State Examination Of English For Senior High School

• Main Author: Saputro, Dheny Gatot (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2005.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/27764/1/Hal_Depan.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/27764/2/Bab_I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/27764/4/Bab_II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/27764/5/Bab_III.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/27764/6/Bba_IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/27764/8/Bab_V.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/27764/9/Dapus.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/27764/10/Appendix.pdf
• Keywords: LB Theory and practice of education

This study aims at describing the content validity of the 2003/2004 State Examination of English for Senior High School by doing the item analysis of validity coefficient, the distribution of student items answer, and their failures based on the type of skill tested in the 2003/2004 State Examination. The writer uses descriptive quantitative research to analyze the data. In analyzing the data, the writer uses correlation product moment to find the validity level of the test items and classify the type of skill tested to analyze the students' failures. From the result of analyzing content validity the writer found that all of the 2003/2004 State Examination of English for Senior High School are valid since they only measure students' mastery in listening, structure, writing and vocabulary according to the purpose of teaching English for Senior High School. From the quality of validity, the 2003/2004 State Examination of English for Senior High School has moderate validity with the mean of validity value is 0,402 for SMK State Examination items, and 0,393 for SMA/MA state Examination items. Then, the students' failures of SMK are 55,67% for listening skill mastery; 64,44% for vocabulary skill mastery; 45% for structure skill mastery; 59,16% for reading skill mastery; and 37,92% for writing skill mastery. While, the students' failures of SMA/MA are 51,17% for listening skill mastery; 33,33% for reading skill mastery; 45,56% for vocabulary skill mastery; 36,67% for writing skill mastery; and 41,33% for structure skill. The percentile rank of the students learning skill is average seen from their mastery grades. The writer concludes that the 2003/2004 State Examination of English for SLTA has a good quality and can be used as the instrument for measuring the students' skill capability in the next academic year.