An Item Analysis Of … 610 AN ITEM ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH SUMMATIVE TEST FOR THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 3 JAKARTA IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR Anisa Fitriani Lailamsyah Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika, Jakarta Fitri Apriyanti Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika, Jakarta fitri.fap@bsi.ac.id Abstract This research is intended to analysis of the English summative test for the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Jakarta in the 2013/2014 academic year. The research method used to analyze the item of English summative test for senior high school are quantitative and qualitative method. Quantitative method was used to analyze data of the facility value and discriminating power of each item. The qualitative method was used to describe and analyze the quality of test items. Keywords: Item Analysis, English Summative Test, Tenth Grade Student INTRODUCTION Evaluation is an important part in teaching and learning process. It gives big contribution for the teaching and it provides an information about the students’ progress. Evaluation result can be used as basis of improving a learning teaching process and of making a decision about the students. Gronlund and Robert point out, “Evaluation is a systematic process of collecting, analyzing and interpreting information to determine the extent to which pupils are achieving instructional objectives.” Hence, evaluation is the systematic process to know how far the students can achieve the instructional objectives after the teaching and learning process. Furthermore, collecting data is the first step of evaluation. In order to collect the data, a teacher needs an instrument. One of the evaluation instruments that are commonly used in educational world is test. Brown explains, “ Test is a method of measuring a person’s ability or knowledge in a given domain.” It means a test is designed to quantify the achievement and to measure student’s progress. The types of test which are used by teachers are formative and summative tests. Formative test is used to know students’ achievement at the specific of study or the end of the chapter. Summative test is used to measure students’ achievement at the final of study. In order to get accurate data, a test should have good criteria. There are validity, reliability, and practicality. A test can be valid if the test can measure what is supposed to measure. It can be reliable if the result of the test is the same even though the test is administered to the same level students in the next time. It can be practical if it is easy to do and to administer. Beside the three criteria above, the quality of a test is also influenced by the quality of individual items. In order to see such item quality, teacher has to do item analysis. Analysis item is the process to identify the quality of each item and to find which one of items that has good quality, needs to be revised even needs to be removed. There is the procedures of analysis an item, the following information; Difficulty level of the item and Discriminating power of the item. After doing the procedures, teacher will get information about the success of the test. It has been stated above that ideally a teacher must be sure that the test has fulfilled the criteria of a good test that includes the quality of the test items. However, analysis