Abstract:
The research was aimed at finding out the quality of teacher created test items in
Physics examination in semester ganjil in 2012 to second year student of SMP
Negeri 17 Pekanbaru qualitatively analyzed by material analysis, construction
and language. The quantitative analysis through the distribution of test items
based on cognitive domain, distracters, omit, difficulty index, discrimination
power, validity item and reliability of test. The writer used descriptive method.
The collected data was secondary data by using documentary technique of test
item specification, the twenty test items of physics exam, and the 268 pieces of
answer sheet. The sample was 151 test takers taken from sample determination
table developed by Issac and Michael as the error level was 5%. The writer used
proportional sampling to choose the sample. The result of the research showed
that the based on the test items qualitative analysis, there were 16 test i tems
(80%) were categorized good and 4 test items (20%) were categorized “poor”.
The quantitative test items analysis showed that the test items were categorized
“very poor”, due to the result of students’ score in which there were two variables
in the difficulty index and discrimination power were categorized “very poor”,
and one validity item variable was categorized not valid.
