The Validity and Reliability of Science Virtual Test on
Levels of Organization and Cell Transport Topic
(SVT-LOCT) to Assess Students’ Science Process Skills
Wafa Hanifah
1
, Nuryani Rustaman
2
, Lilit Rusyati
3
{wafarkk@gmail.com
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}
International Program on Science Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi 229,
Bandung, 40154, Indonesia
1,3
, Department of Biology Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl.
Dr. Setiabudi 229, Bandung, 40154, Indonesia
2
Abstract. The purpose of this study was to analyze the validity and reliability of science
virtual test to assess junior high school students‟ science process skills on levels of
organization and cell transport topics, SVT-LOCT. The final design of the instrument
was administered to 118 students of 7th graders from two schools in Kabupaten
Bandung, Indonesia. The three steps to validate SVY-LOCT are content analysis of
levels of organization and cell transport topics, expert judgment and readability test, and
trial test (small group try out and larger test). SVT-LOCT was judged through education,
content, media, and language by experts and readability test was conducted by teachers
and students. The validation resulted in 31 test items that represent eight skills of SPS to
assess students‟ science process skills in levels of organization and cell transport topic.
The reliability of SVT-LOCT was considered as high with Cronbach alpha = 0.753 with
correlation of XY = 0.65, meaning that the instrument is sufficient to assess students‟
science process skills.
Keywords: Science Virtual Test, Science Process Skills, Levels of Organization, Cell
Transport
1 Introduction
The development of the advance of technology is resulting the competition in the life
aspects. The swift improvement of technology has influenced many areas education, including
the testing and assessment area. This competition requires some country change their
educational testing system that involves technology in the learning process. The computare
simulation assessment as an E-test (electronic testing) is one kind of tools that are always used
in teaching process to improve the accuracy and efficiency of taking students‟ data [1].
The assessment area where testing method has been alternated from the traditional paper-
based test to computer-based test is believed to offer need of technology-based assessment in
the past year, especially in Indonesia. Since 2013 the national examination in Indonesia has
implemented CBA in the form of computer based-test (CBT). However, in utilizing CBT as
assessment tools, there are features in CBT that hasn‟t been utilized well [1]. The CBA has
had many advantages, such as decreasing paper use, minimizing cost costs for conducting
experiments, providing additional opportunities for testing variants in one trial, and the
MSCEIS 2019, October 12, Bandung, Indonesia
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DOI 10.4108/eai.12-10-2019.2296435