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Fakultas : Bahasa dan SeniProdi : Pendidikan Bahasa InggrisMata Kuliah & Kode : Language Testing & PEN 205Jumlah sks : 2Semester : 5Mata Kuliah Prasyarat & Kode : -Dosen : A.Ghani Johan, M.Ed

I. DESKRIPSI MATA KULIAH

Mata kuliah ini berbobot 2 sks dengan tatap muka 1 kali seminggu dalam waktu 100

menit setiap pertemuan. Mata kuliah ini terdiri dari teori dan praktek dalam bentuk

penyampaian materi tentang konsep-konsep dan prinsip-prinsip dasar dalam penyusunan

tes bahasa, penyekoran, dan pengolahan terhadap hasil tes. Mahasiswa ditugaskan untuk

menilais suatu tes (butir-butir soal), menganalisis suatu tes disertai dengan perhitungan

statistik yang diperlukan, dan mengolah skor tes. Penilaian terhadap hasil belajar

mahasiswa didasarkan pada tugas individual/kelompok, ujian tengah semester, ujian

semester, dan presensi perkuliahan.

II. STANDAR KOMPETENSI MATA KULIAH

Memahami dan menerapkan konsep-konsep dan prinsip dalam penyusunan tes,

penyekoran tes, dan pengolahan hasil tes; serta membangun sikap kritis dan apresiatif

terhadap tes bahasa.

III. STRATEGI PERKULIAHAN

1. Perkuliahan tatap muka

2. Diskusi/tanya-jawab

3. Tugas individual/kelompok

IV. REFERENSI/SUMBER BAHAN

A. Wajib : Language Assessment. Principles and Classroom Practice. H. Douglas Brown. Pearson Longman, New York, 2004.

B. Anjuran : Buku-buku atau artikel tentang Language Testing

V. SKENARIO PERKULIAHAN

TatapMuka

Kompetensi Dasar Materi Pokok Strategi Per-Kuliahan Referensi

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Mengidentifikasi fungsi, manfaat, dan tujuan language testing

Mengidentifikasi teknik-teknik utama dalam pengetesan bahasa dan keterampilan bahasa dengan komponen-komponennya

Mengidentifikasi prosedur pembuatan cloze tests dan mencoba pengerjaannya

Mengidentifikasi syarat-syarat untuk suatu butir soal pilihan-ganda yang baik.

Mengidentifikasi ciri-ciri/syarat-syarat tes yang baik dan Bloom’s Taxonomy dalam pengetesan bahasa

Mengidentifikasi apa yang dites dalam testing grammatical structures, tipe-tipe soal, dan penerapan Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy

Mengidentifikasi apa yang dites dalam testing reading comprehension, tema dan bentuk reading texts, tipe-tipe soal, dan penerapan Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy

1. a. The Significance of Language Testing b. The Purpose of Language Testing

2. a. Some Principal Language Testing Techniques

b. Language Skills and Their Components

3. Cloze tests

4. Some Requirements for a Multiple Choice Item

5. a. Characteristics of A Good Test b. Content, Construct, and Face Validity c. Bloom’s Taxonomy

6. Testing Grammatical Structures a. What to test b. Item Types c. Cognitive Levels in Testing Grammatical Structures

7. Testing Reading Comp a. What to test b. Item Types c. Cognitive Levels in

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Mengidentifikasi apa yang dites dalam testing Vocabulary, tipe-tipe soal, dan penerapan Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy

Mengidentifikasi apa yang dites dan dinilai dalam testing Speaking serta bentuk kegiatan tes

Mengidentifikasi apa yang dites dan dinilai dalam testing Listening.

Mengidentifikasi apa yang dites dan dinilai dalam testing Writing.

Menyekor tes objektif dan tes esei.

Menerapkan rumus-rumus statistik tertentu untuk menghitung validitas butir-butir suatu tes

Menerapkan rumus-rumus statistik tertentu untuk menghitung reliabilitas suatu tes

Menganalisis butir soal

Menerapkan kurva normal dalam distribusi nilai

Testing Reading Comp

---- Ujian Tengah Semester ---

8. Testing Vocabulary a. What to test b. Item Types c. Cognitive Levels in Testing Vocabulary

9. Testing Speaking a. What to test b. Activities

10. Testing Listening a. What to test b. Item Types/Activities

11. Testing Writing a. What to test b. Test types

12. Scoring objective and essays tests

13. Calculating the item validity a. Mean and SD b. Objective tests c. Essay tests

14. Calculating the reliability of a test

a. Objective testsb. Essay tests

15. Item analysis a. Item Difficulty/Facility b. Item Discrimination Index c. Distracter’s effectiveness

16. Normal Curvea. Normal Distributionb. Converting raw scores

into final marksc. Standardized scores

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Kuliah, diskusi,Latihan

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VI. Evaluasi

No. Komponen Evaluasi Bobot (%)

1 Partisipasi kuliah 10 %

2 Tugas-tugas 15%

3 Ujian Tengah Semester 30%

4 Ujian Semester 45 %

Jumlah 100%

TYPES OF LANGUAGE TESTS (based on their functions)

1. Aptitude Tests -------------- Aptitude Tests

2. General Proficiency Test --Screening Tests

Placement Tests

3. Achievement Tests --------- Achievement Tests

Diagnostic Tests

Program Evaluation Tests

SOME PRINCIPAL LANGUAGE TESTING TECHNIQUES-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1. Translation

2. Dictation

3. Writing

4. Scored Interviews/Speaking

5. Short-answer Items

6. Multiple-choice Items

7. Cloze Tests/Procedure fixed-ratio method rational method

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A Cloze Test

The Problem of the World’s Food Supply

Although science and technological developments have made

progress in the last 100 years, millions of people are hungry and

unable to improve their condition without help. The problem seems

to be of scarcity, especially in __________ (1) like Ethiopia,

Sudan, and ___________(2) of Southern and Southeast Asia.

______ (3) appears that there is not enough food to support the

________ (4) people of the countries.

But if we examine the situation more ___________ (5), we

find that it is not the _________ (6). If we calculate the ________

(7) which is thrown away in big cities like Jakarta, Singapore,

Tokyo, and New York, in restaurants and in __________ (8) all

over the world everyday, we find that the food thrown away

_______ (9) enough to feed the _________ (10) people of the

world. The richer countries of the world enjoy ___________ (11)

standard of living than their _________ (12) neighbours. The rich

people consume more than they _________(13). They spend too

much money on the food they _____(14) in restaurants, although

they eat only ______ (15).

BASIC READING SKILLS

1. Deducing the meanings of unfamiliar lexical items

2. Understanding references

3. Understanding forms and meanings of non-idiomatic phrases

4. Understanding sentence meanings through syntactical structures

6. Reading graphics, charts, tables, etc.

7. Recognizing and understanding rhetorical structures

a. At Sentence level: meanings of sentence connectors, discourse

markers, figures of speech, elliptic and inversion

b. At Paragraph level or Inter-sentences : meanings of sentence

connectors, the topic and main idea of paragraphs, relationship

between the main idea and details

c. At the whole Passage level: theme and central thought, function of

the paragraphs, parts and their functions

8. Critical Reading Skillsa. Understanding the writer’s purpose, view-point, and tone

b. Making inferences, generalization, and conclusion

c. Evaluating the writer’s references

d. Evaluating the writer’s language and writing procedures.

Test Matrix

Cognitive LevelMaterials

Knowledge Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation TOTAL

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..% ..% ..% ..% ..% ..% 100%

Some Requirements for a Multiple-Choice Item

1. There should be only one correct answer.

2. The options should be of relatively the same length.

3. It tests a specific feature of the language.

4. It uses simple and grammatically correct language.

Testing Vocabulary

1. We need __________ to make a cake.

a. a few eggb. two ounce of sugarc. many margarined. some flour

The ship __________ tomorrow morning.

a. is leavingb. may leavec. will leave

The rain caused the grass ___________ fast.

a. growingb. to growc. growd. grew

(testing one feature of the language)Last-week’s rain _________ the grass ________ fast.

a. causes – to growb. made – to growc. caused – grow d. makes – grow

(testing two features of the language)

The ship hit the iceberg because ____________ .

a. the weather was badb. too many people on board

c. the crew were not well-trainedd. the weather was bad and there were too many

people on board.

( not a very good item of testing reading comprehension)

To know a word is to know its

1) spelling 2) pronunciation 3) meaning(s) 4) usage/WORD TYPE

boat thorougha. board a. althoughb. go b. bothc. book c. thend. gaol d. within

Characteristics of A Good Test

1. Valid (= sahih)

2. Reliable (= handal)

3. Practical (= praktis)

Validity

Logical Validity1) Content Validity2) Construct Validity3) Face Validity

Empirical Validity1) Item Validity2) Concurrent Validity

3) Predictive Validity

DATA (Skor suatu tes m-c dikotomus)

Item Number Testees 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

TotalScore

1. Ika 1 472 1 433 1 414 1 385 0 376 1 347 1 308 0 299 1 2810 1 2711 0 2612 1 2513 1 24

14 1 2315 0 2016 1 2017 1 1918 0 1719 0 1720 0 16 p q pq

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X … SD …

1. Hitunglah Item Facility dari butir soal no.1.

2. Hitunglah Item Descrimination index butir soal no 1.

3. Hitunglah Item Validity butir soal no. 1.

4. Dengan menggunakan formula K-R 21, hitunglah Reliabilitas dari tes di atas.

DATA (Skor dari suatu tes esei)

Item No.

Testees 1 2 . . . . . . . . 10

Total

Score

1. Anita 5 45

2. 4 40

3. 5 37

4. 3 34

5. 4 31

6. 3 29

7. 2 27

8. 2 26

9. 1 24

10. 1 23

11. 1 18

Hitunglah validitas butir (item validity) soal no. 1.

NOUNSVERBSADJECTIVESADVERBS

PrepositionsArticlesConjunctionsIndefinite Numerals

We visited the house where we used to live.