STUDY ON THE WRITING ABILITY OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER TEST ITEMS

Sri Wuryanti¹, Muhardis²

Pusat Asesmen dan Pembelajaran, Balitbang dan Perbukuan,

Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan

sriwuryanti03@gmail.com 

Abstract. The purpose of this study was to obtain information about the ability of elementary school teachers in constructing test items at midterm costs. This study uses a qualitative type that describes empirical reality using a descriptive approach. This study also uses a literature study, with documents to find some field data that occurs in the form of questions on several subjects. Meanwhile, the descriptive method is finding facts with the right interpretation, namely understanding the concept of the material, the ability to use the rules of the question. Meanwhile, the data analysis used is by (1) the justification of subject matter experts in interpreting the feasibility of the test questions, (2) theoretically and empirically, the questions have met the standard rules of question affairs. These findings occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the assessment using offline and bold was found, (1) biased item tests, (2) lack of understanding under the rules of the question. Meanwhile, some of the test questions that were found to have problems were Indonesian, Natural Science, Character, and Boy Scouts. There were 13 items found, for 4 questions had material concept errors and 9 test questions had errors in the rules.

Keywords: test, understanding of concepts, rules of questions, subjects, assessment.