A Validation Study on National English Examination of Junior High School in Indonesia (original) (raw)

The research purpose is to provide feedback about the test quality from a local context that leads to the improvement of National English Examination in Indonesia. Simple random sampling is applied to obtain 1 packet of test items out of 42 packets. Next, the sample of participants as the examinees, 3 junior high schools, is obtained through stratified purposive sampling based on the school accreditation ranks. Lastly, for the sample as the content validity analysts, 3 English subject teachers are purposively selected based on the set criteria. The findings show that the test has fulfilled the criteria of having content validity. However, the test score reliability coefficient calculated with KR-21 is .65 which is categorised unreliable. The test developers need to consider revising items with very low or very high item difficulty and very low item discrimination. Finally, a further action needs to be taken to revise the implausible distractors.