CRITICAL JOURNAL REVIEW

“WRITING ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST ITEMS AS

A LEARNING DEVICE: A PRINCIPLE OF HABIT
FORMATION RULES”

Compiled by:
NAME : YUSNAINI YUSDA LUBIS/1902050135
CLASS : C5 MORNING
SUBJECT : Language Test
LECTURER : Yessi Irianti, S.Pd., M.Hum

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH SUMATERA
UTARA
 PREFACE
Assalamu’alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakaatuh.
First at all, thanks to God’s love and grace for us.
Thanks to God for helping and give us a chance to finish this Language Test assignment about
Critical Review Journal timely. And we would like to say thankyou to Yessi Irianti, S.Pd.,
M.Hum. as the lecturer that always teaches us and give much knowledge.
This assignment is one of Language test, the writer realize this assignment is not perpect. But the
writer hopes it could be useful for us. Critics and suggestion are needed to make this assignment
be better.
Hopefully we as student in “faculty of teacher training and education” could be more
professional to use English as the second language.

Medan, 10 November 2019

Author
 REVIEW JOURNAL
A. IDENTIFICATION OF JOURNAL

Title English Language Test Items as a Learning

Device: A Principle of Habit Formation Rules

Name of Journal International Journal of Social Science and

Humanities

Page and Volume of Journal Pages: 135-144 and 3 Volume Number 3

Years December 2017

Writer Drs. I Nengah Astawa, M.Hum a;

Nengah Dwi Handayani, S.Pd., M.Pd b;
Dr. Ida Bagus Nyoman Mantra, SH., S.Pd.,
M.Pd c;
I Ketut Wardana, S.Pd., M.Hum d;

Reviewer Yusnaini Yusda Lubis

Date November
 A. ASSESSMENT DATA
Abstract of Research I think this journal of research is needed
suitable to use at school and for vocational
junior high school students. This is due to the
urgency of test used to measure learning
experience related to the objective of English
learning as a foreign language.

Place of Research

The place is in Denpasar, Bali.

Subject of Research The subject of study were the vocational junior
high school students.

Introduction of Research Through test distribution to the students,

teachers can acknowledge the level of students’
competence mastery, help the students solve or
map their problems, find the learning
difficulties, diagnose the strength and the
weaknesses of teaching method and motivate
the students to improve learning achievement.
Therefore, to measure the objective of the
study planned, teachers should be able to
construct as good test as possible. The good
test must be attractive, educated, valid and
reliable. The test may not contain any trap
because this can harm the students. Whatever
the test is, it must be able to dig back the
students’ knowledge in such a way.
Method of Research Based on the problem and treatment, the
present study employed an experimental and
exposes facto research design. The one group
pretest-posttest design was chosen as the
method to analyze the data and the later applied
to describe the validity, reliability,
acceptability of the test. One group pretest-
posttest design is an experiment research
design that is conducted by one group only
without a control group. The steps were started
with pretest on teachers’ ability in writing
English test, a workshop about the principle of
writing the test based on principles of habit
formation rules and administered posttest to
measure the effect of treatment. It’s easier for
us to collect the data about students who study
with communicative language teaching
approach.

Results and Analysis of Research The pretest that consisted of assignment to

make good test for final examination was
administered to know the preexisting ability of
teachers in constructing appropriate test, such
as Multiple-choice test items/error-recognition
multiple-choice items, true-false test item,
filling the blanks, the measurement of the
teacher’s ability was judged by using test
construction rubrics. From the data analysis, it
was known that the teachers still made a lot of
mistakes in constructing both objective and
subjective test. The test was not constructed
based on rules of writing a good test.

Strength of Research The strength of this research is:

1. Research uses many expert opinions
from various sorces not only for the
result of research, but also in the
introduction, research methods.
2. Researchers also use many sources not
only from book to support the theory
but also journals.
Weakness of Research The test does not match with the purpose of
language function and set the communicative
language formation. The language task was
given usually does not mirror the real use of
language for daily life. The students’ language
ability is only measured by multiple choice test
items that can lead them to guess, not to
understand. This type of test is only measuring
the cognitive domain.

Conclusion of Research In conclusion, assessing the competence level

of the students’ ability has progressed a long
way since the beginning learning process. A
measurement device, a test administered to
acknowledge the level of students’ competence
mastery, help the students solve or map their
problems, find the learning difficulties,
diagnose the strength and the weaknesses of
teaching method and motivate the students to
improve learning achievement.

LINK AUTHOR GUIDELINES:

https://sciencescholar.us/journal/index.php/ijssh/article/view/67/98