An Analysis on the English Summative Test of Tenth Grade Students in Academic Year 2012/2013 in Vocational School of Smk N 1 Kudus.

Aprianti, Anis. 2013. An Analysis on the English Summative Test of Tenth Grade Students in Academic Year 2012/2013 in Vocational School of Smk N 1 Kudus. Skripsi.English Education Department Teacher Training and Education Faculty Muria Kudus University. Advisors: (1) Drs. Suprihadi, M.Pd. (2) Ahdi Riyono, SS, M.Hum. Key words: Summative test, factors in constructing a test. Summative test is a test that is always used by the teacher to have the final report of the students. However, many students got score under minimal criterion in summative test. The teacher thought the reason why students failed in the exam, because of students’ error. As we know there are so many factors that influence the students’ score in summative test, not only students’ error but also the test is self. Therefore, the teacher should consider many factors in constructing a test. Validity, reliability, discriminating power, item difficulty, and distracters are factors, which build a good test. The objective of this research is: to measure validity, reliability, discriminating power, item difficulty, and distracters on the English Summative Test of the Tenth Grade Students in Academic Year 2012/2013 in Vocational School of SMK N 1 Kudus. The data (subject) of this research is validity, reliability, discriminating power, item difficulty, and effectiveness of distracters, which are found in English summative test in first semester test of tenth grade students in the academic year 2012/2013 at SMK N 1 Kudus. The data source (object) of this research is taken from test item and key answer, 38 students’ sheet of class X AP3, the syllabus of vocational school, module English for vocational school of SMK N 1 Kudus, and list of score in daily test of class XAP3. The design of this research was descriptive qualitative The result and conclusion of analysis can be seen that validities of this test are good in face validity, good in content validity, good in construct validity, and low in empirical validity. The reliability of this test is low. The discriminating power of this test is low. The item difficulty of this test is low. The effectiveness of distracters are 8 items have effectiveness as distractors in all of the option, and the other options just have 1, 2, or 3 options that effective as distractors. The suggestion for this research is for the teachers in SMK N 1 KUDUS must do revise this test, so the teacher can measure students’ ability correctly