TEACHERS BEHALF ON LANGUAGE TEST CONSTRUCTION

There are four steps necessarily to be conducted when designing multiple-choice test items, namely setting the objective, building both concise stems and options, determining one correct answer, employing item indices to accept or discarding items (Brown, 2004). As a matter of fact, most teachers in...

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Main Authors: Nyak Mutia Ismail, Marisa Yoestara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Sanata Dharma 2017-10-01
Series:LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching
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Online Access:https://e-journal.usd.ac.id/index.php/LLT/article/view/734
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description There are four steps necessarily to be conducted when designing multiple-choice test items, namely setting the objective, building both concise stems and options, determining one correct answer, employing item indices to accept or discarding items (Brown, 2004). As a matter of fact, most teachers in Aceh are not very well-informed about the fourth step and they accept all items as they are. This study focuses on high school teachers who undergo all of the steps offered in the framework when constructing multiple-choice items for English summative test(s). The qualitative method using framework analysis was used in obtaining the data. A questionnaire was distributed to 15 teachers. The analysis process was carried out through three-step analysis (Miles, Huberman, Saldana, 2013). The results depict that the teachers hardly conduct the index determining step or try-outs when constructing a test. This implies that there is no empirical warrant that all items are worth tested and can be the fundamentals for decision-making when assessing and evaluating students test results.
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spelling doaj.art-b0fea851a2764a23ab7ae03cae8d614b2022-12-22T03:26:36ZengUniversitas Sanata DharmaLLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching1410-72012579-95332017-10-01202788410.24071/llt.v20i2.734564TEACHERS BEHALF ON LANGUAGE TEST CONSTRUCTIONNyak Mutia Ismail0Marisa Yoestara1Syiah Kuala UniversitySerambi Mekkah University, AcehThere are four steps necessarily to be conducted when designing multiple-choice test items, namely setting the objective, building both concise stems and options, determining one correct answer, employing item indices to accept or discarding items (Brown, 2004). As a matter of fact, most teachers in Aceh are not very well-informed about the fourth step and they accept all items as they are. This study focuses on high school teachers who undergo all of the steps offered in the framework when constructing multiple-choice items for English summative test(s). The qualitative method using framework analysis was used in obtaining the data. A questionnaire was distributed to 15 teachers. The analysis process was carried out through three-step analysis (Miles, Huberman, Saldana, 2013). The results depict that the teachers hardly conduct the index determining step or try-outs when constructing a test. This implies that there is no empirical warrant that all items are worth tested and can be the fundamentals for decision-making when assessing and evaluating students test results.https://e-journal.usd.ac.id/index.php/LLT/article/view/734test construction, language testing, multiple-choice items, summative test, and assessment and evaluation.
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TEACHERS BEHALF ON LANGUAGE TEST CONSTRUCTION
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching
test construction, language testing, multiple-choice items, summative test, and assessment and evaluation.
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title_full_unstemmed TEACHERS BEHALF ON LANGUAGE TEST CONSTRUCTION
title_short TEACHERS BEHALF ON LANGUAGE TEST CONSTRUCTION
title_sort teachers behalf on language test construction
topic test construction, language testing, multiple-choice items, summative test, and assessment and evaluation.
url https://e-journal.usd.ac.id/index.php/LLT/article/view/734
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