Creating Reading Comprehension Computer Based Test (CBT) as The Graduation Requirement of Vocational College Students

Abstract

Vocational College of Diponegoro University required the students to have a specific English test as their graduation requirement. This study aims to create the English test in the form of CBT for Vocational College students as their graduation requirement. One of the test components is reading comprehension test. This reading comprehension test consist of 5 passages which include 9 questions in every passages. The passages consist of business email, inquiry email, newsletter, complain letter, response to complain letter, resignation letter, job vacancy, promotional poster for events, promotional materials, regulation, job contract, company rules, and work ethic. The question in each passages include identifying main idea, objective, explicit information, implicit information, reference, word meaning based on context and cohesive device. The method used in this study is research and development method using ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) model as the research procedures. The result of this study is the reading comprehension computer-based test (CBT) system which consists of 5 different functional pages namely the student login page, student question page, package upload, passage and question upload and student result page.