Reading comprehension plays a vital role in entertaining and gaining some information. The teacher-researcher needs to do a pre-reading activity to scaffold students' reading comprehension in narrative text. VLP (Vocabulary, Language, Prediction) is an appropriate strategy to improve students' reading achievement by mastering vocabulary before the main reading activity. The students in grade X of SMK with low English reading achievement were taught English, especially reading comprehension in narrative text. Before the strategy was implemented, the average score was 41.1. Then, the Classroom Action Research was conducted, and the VLP strategy was applied. After implementing two cycles of CAR, the average score reached 77.8. It proves that by applying the VLP strategy, students can improve their reading comprehension. Students' motivation in learning English also increased as well as their self-confidence to express their thoughts in class discussions.
The ministry of Education Department, since the removal of USBN, mandates every school to conduct a school final exam that should made by the teachers. In this study, the writer focuses on the English Junior High School Final Exam made by EFL teacher distributed in Mojokerto academic year 2021/2022. In order to know the quality of the item test, the analysis can be done by investigating the validity, reliability, item difficulty, item discrimination, and item distractors. This study used descriptive quantitative. The respondents of this study were taken from English school final exam of 9th-grade students in MTS Bahrul Ulum which consists of 50 multiple choice items from 31 students. The instrument are the test question, the students’ answer sheet, and the answer key. It will be analyzed by using ITEMAN 4.3 program as an effective solution for item test analysis. The result indicates that the content validity still do not cover the whole material in the syllabus. The reliability of the test is 0.91 which is categorized as reliable. The difficulty level of the item test is 0.60 or 60% which is considered good. The item discrimination is 0.38 considered as satisfactory. The effective item distractors is 48%, smaller than the percentage of ineffective items. In conclusion, the quality of English Junior High School Final Exam made by EFL teacher distributed in Mojokerto academic year 2021/2022 in terms of validity, reliability, item difficulty, item discrimination, and item distractors absolutely needs improving. Keywords: item analysis, validity, reliability, item distractor, item discrimination, item difficulty, descriptive quantitative
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