The quality of an English summative test of a public junior high school, Kupang-NTT

This study aimed at examining the quality of an English summative test of grade VII in a public school located in Kupang. Particularly, this study examined content validity, reliability, and conducted item analysis including item validity, item difficulty, item discrimination, and distracter effectiveness. This study was descriptive evaluative research with documentation to collect data. The data was analyzed quantitatively except for content validity, which was done qualitatively. Content validity was analyzed by matching the test items with materials stated in the curriculum. The findings revealed that the English summative test had a high content validity. The reliability was estimated by applying the Kuder-Richardson’s formula (K-R20). The result showed that the test was reliable and very good for a classroom test. The item analysis was conducted by using ITEMAN 3.0. and it revealed that the the test was mostly constructed by easy items, most of the items could discriminate the students, most distracters were able to perform well, and the most of items were valid

Role of Smartphones to Support EFL Students English Learning at Border Area

The emergence of the covid-19 outbreak has affected the educational system in Indonesia. The learning process which used to be carried out via face-to-face interaction, needs to be altered to an online way. Because of that, the role of smartphones is very important in learning activities that must be undertaken online. As a place for ongoing learning, the role of smartphones is now widely used to support online learning systems. Hence, this study aims at examining the role of smartphones in the online learning of EFL students at the University of Timor as well as figuring out problems encountered by the subject of the study. In procuring data, the researchers employed a qualitative method. The data was collected from a questionnaire with 21 responses from EFL students from Timor University. Additionally, the researchers also employed interviews and participant observation to enrich the required data. The product of the research indicated that almost all of the students, which was 20 out of 21 (90%) avowed that smartphones gave them benefits especially dealing with their portability. Moreover, the students mentioned running out of credits, dreadful internet connection as well as plenty of distraction coming from social media notifications as existing problems they met while operating smartphones for online learning. Thus, the study results also delineated that smartphones use in online learning during the pandemic was very high and pivotal