Tryout Test Research Articles

Electronic Multimodel-based Instructional Materials Development on the Sound Wave Topic Incorporating the Verses of the Quran

This research aims to produce multimodel-based electronic instructional materials on sound waves incorporating the verses of the Quran to improve learning outcomes. This research aims to describe the validity, practicality, and effectiveness of the instructional materials. The method employed was research and development. The model of research and development used was the ADDIE model. The pre-experiment design (the one-group pretest-posttest design) was conducted. The subjects of the tryout test consisted of 33 students of XI MIPA 4 MAN 2 Banjarmasin. The data were collected through validity assessment instruments, questionnaires, and learning achievement tests. The results of the research showed that: (1) the lesson plan validity of 3,44 is very good; the validity of the student worksheet of 3.27 category is good; the validity of the instructional material of 3.30 was good; and the validity of achievement test of 3.33 was good, (2) the practicality of the instructional materials with an average score of 3.33 was a good category, and (3) the effectiveness of instructional materials with an average score of 0.75 was a high category. It can be concluded that multimodel-based electronic instructional materials on sound waves incorporating the verses of the Quran are applicable in learning. Thus, the instructional materials developed can be used as alternative materials to improve learning outcomes.

Level of anxiety and internal tryout evaluation of the national objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE) results for pharmacy students

OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) for pharmacist profession students is currently one of the measuring tools for success in competency exams to test victory in learning the Pharmacist Profession, in addition to the MCQ (Cognitive Based Test) method which is carried out in the form of CBT (Computer Based-Test). The Pharmacist Profession Study Program at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM) currently has professional pharmacist students and conducted a national tryout test for batch 2 students. In contrast, these students have never received training for the OSCE exam before. This study was conducted to evaluate the internal tryout on the results of the national OSCE score for Pharmacist students at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang” in batch 3 compared to batch 2, which had not done an internal tryout. In addition, an anxiety test was conducted on students taking the OSCE exam to get the degree of anxiety students taking the exam. From the study results, the anxiety level of the 2nd and 3rd batch students when facing the national OSCE exam was moderately anxious. Implementing the internal tryout had significant effects on the passing rate of the 3rd batch of students in the national OSCE exam.

Conceptions and Conceptual Changes of Junior High-School Students in the Topic of Temperature and Heat

The qualitative research was conducted in junior high school to know students’ conceptions and conceptual changes on temperature and heat, specifically on specific heat topics. This study uses the purposive sampling technique. The research was started by collecting data and observing the students. The next step was a try-out test instrument conducted in a regular eighth-grade class. The try-out test was used as an instrument test to the superior dan the regular class of seventh-grade and the superior class of eighth-grade. The research instrument was a conceptual test in essay form and then conducted an interview. The samples were the students who had many possibilities in answering the research instrument. Based on the result of the study, the students’ concepts can be divided into three types: scientific, alternative, and parallel. The conceptions of the excellent class of the seventh-grade, the regular class of seventh-grade, and the excellent class of eighth-grade are alternative concepts. The conceptual changes in the excellent eighth-grade class are decreasing students’ understanding of heat and temperature.

How are the Characteristics of Integrated Assessment Instruments to Measure Critical Thinking Skills and Scientific Attitudes of High School Students?

This research aimed to develop an integrated assessment instrument and to study the instrument’s characteristics. This research used 4-D development model of which the stages included defining, designing, developing, and disseminating. The primary product is validated by expert judgment. This research involved 274 mathematics and natural science eleventh-grade students of Senior High Schools in Sleman district, Yogyakarta. The polytomous data generated by the instrument trial was analyzed using the WINSTEPS 3.73 program and the Partial Credit Model 1-Parameter Logistic (PCM 1-PL) approach. Data collecting techniques included interviews, questionnaires, and tests. Data collecting instruments included interview guidelines, a question item validation sheet, and the integrated assessment instrument an essay test. The result of the research shows that the integrated assessment instrument has 0.93 of Aiken validation value. All tryout test items were stated to fit with the PCM 1-PL based on the criteria for the lowest and the highest limit outfit MNSQ 0.5 and 1.5. Item reliability was 0.96 and person reliability was 0.71. The difficulty level of question items was good, because of the range from -1.05 to +1.01 logit. Therefore, the integrated assessment instrument is suitable to be applied to measure the student’s critical thinking skills and scientific attitudes.

ERROR ANALYSIS OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE SENTENCES IN ENGLISH BY INFORMATION SYSTEMS STUDENTS

This research is a qualitative descriptive research. The purpose of this study was to determine students' understanding in making simple sentences with simple present tense patterns, the types of grammatical errors made by students in making simple sentences with simple present tense patterns, grammatical errors that generally occur in making simple sentences with simple present tense patterns. The subjects of this research are students of semester 1, class A, Information Systems study program. The data collection technique was done by written test. In the written test, the researcher used a written test instrument in the form of English questions about the simple present tense. The written test questions are in the form of multiple choice and essay. The test questions are divided into 3 parts in the tryout test, namely completing sentences, making sentences, and translating sentences. In the third meeting, students complete sentences, answer questions and make a simple present tense paragraph. Based on the research, it was found that: after students were given another explanation about simple present tense sentences, 20 students out of 27 students (74%) answered using simple present tense sentences correctly. It can be said that there has been a 26% increase in understanding of simple present tense sentence patterns.

THE ABILITY OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA DELI MURNI BANDAR BARU ON USING COUNTABLE ANDUNCOUNTABLE NOUNS IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021

The purpose of this research is to describe the ability of the eleventh-grade students of SMA Deli Murni Bandar Baru on using Countable and Uncountable Nouns. The population of this research was the eleventh-grade students, with 58 students taken as sample. The instrument of collecting data is a test concerning Countable and Uncountable Nouns. The tryout test was done to know the validity, reliability, item difficulty of test items. The result showed that 5 students (15 %) belong to the high category, 24 students (73 %) to the moderate category, and 4 students (12 %) to the low category. The mean score was 61,39 it was only 24 % of the total students who can do the test well with 12 students who get a score above 75, it means that the eleventh-grade students of SMA Deli Murni Bandar Baru are not yet able to use Countable and Uncountable Nouns. Based on the total incorrect answers made by the students in using countable and uncountable was 502. The percentage of students’ mistakes made by students in uncountable multiple choice including indefinite and quantifier uncountable was 33 %, in countable multiple choice including singular, regular, irregular countable 34%, in the countable essay including regular and irregular countable was 33%. Based on the findings and conclusions, some suggestions are offered to English teachers, English students, and other researchers. Especially to English teachers, who teach in school, are advised to improve students' ability to use countable and uncountable nouns.

Students’ Achievement on Institutional TOEFL an Evaluation at FBS Universitas Wijaya Putra

This study tries to describe students’ achievement on institutional TOEFL in Universitas Wijaya Putra. The test is meant as a means of evaluation upon the launching of a mandatory subject as a prerequisite towards final paper writing. The program begins with ten weeks of test preparation completed with a try-out test and the final test. This is a descriptive study since it tries to depict the result of their achievement and the most difficult section of the test. The data analysis uses the computation upon the results mostly applied for Excel Program, particularly in finding the Mean (X) and the Standard Deviation (S). The findings derived from the data analysis tell that 62.85% of the class belong to Grade D which means it is far below expectation. The finding also identified that Listening Section is to be the most difficult part of the test. Still, the findings say none of the students included into the level of either extremely excellent or failed. It is a big task to fulfill a better target for the coming classes by undergoing revision and development in many aspects, especially in time allocation and the module.

Developing four-tier diagnostic test to measure students’ misconceptions on simple harmonic motion material

This research developed four-tier multiple choice test items to measure its validity, reliability, characteristics, and students’ misconceptions on Simple Harmonic Motion material. This research was Research and Development (R & D) using 3D (Define, Design, and Develop) development model. The tenth graders of 1 Slawi Senior High School participated in tryout test and the eleventh graders of 1 Kramat Senior High School participated in the final field test. This research used documentation, interviews, questionnaires, and tests to collect the data. The developed test consisted of 30 four-level multiple choice items covering questions, the level of confidence in answering questions, reasons, and the level of confidence in giving reasons. This research yielded validity, reliability, discrimination power, difficulty level, and the percentage of misconceptions analyses. Validation results from 8 validators stated that the instrument was very feasible with the average percentage of 86.23%. The content validity result using Aiken coefficient got the average score of 0.80 with the valid category at the 0.05 significance level. The reliability of the developed test was 0.892. The difficulty level indicated 5 easy items, 22 medium questions, and 3 difficult questions. Students experienced misconceptions on Simple Harmonic Motion material of 58.63% in the medium category.

An item analysis on multiple-choice questions: a case of a junior high school English try-out test in Indonesia

The present study aims to analyze multiple-choice questions obtained from a trial testing conducted in a state junior high school in Indonesia. The study seeks to reveal the level of difficulty, discriminating power and distractor efficiency of the selected test items by employing item analysis. The result of the study discovers that levels of difficulty on the question items are varied. Some question tended to be easy and moderately difficult while the others are difficult to answer. It also uncovers that, in regard to discriminating power, some questions are well constructed while the others are ambiguously worded that can potentially cause the questions to fail to evaluate the students’ ability. The analysis on distractor efficiency presents information how the chosen multiple-choice questions were frequently constructed with less effective distractors that caused more high achieving students to choose wrong answers.

The Characteristics of High-Risk Tryout Test Items for Indonesian Elementary Schools Students

One of the measurement forms applied in the educational field to know students' ability is a high-risk tryout test. This research examined the quality of Mathematics tryout test questions used by Indonesian teachers to prepare for the national examination as a high-risk examination. This study used a quantitative approach and analyzed based on item response theory to determine the fitness of the model and item eligibility. The data used were the answers of elementary school students who took the 2016 national examination tryout of mathematics subject with the total number of 924 students from 20 elementary schools in Indonesia. The mathematics subject consisting of 40 questions, which are adjusted to the blueprint of elementary school national examination, was chosen. The results obtained indicate that the mathematics tryout test items meet the assumptions of uni-dimension, local independence, and parameter invariance items. The logistic parameter model used was the 2-PL model, with 31 out of 40 eligible items of questions. The novelty of this research is the use of item response theory to analyze the quality of an instrument. The aim of the use of item response theory is to avoid examinee sample dependent and item sample dependent. The educational stakeholders can use this research as a reflection in preparing high-risk examination.

ANSWERING READING TEXTS ON ENGLISH TRYOUT TEST BASED ON THE 12TH GRADE STUDENTS' STRATEGIES AT SMA NEGERI1 KURIPAN LOMBOK BARAT

The purpose of this study was to find out the answering reading text on English Tryout Test based on the 12th Grade students' Strategies at SMA Negeri1 Kuripan Lombok Barat in the Academic Year of 2018/2019. The population was 329 students and the sample was XII. A class that consists of 31 students were involved in this study. This study was designed as a descriptive study in analyzing the data. The data was obtained through the questionnaire. It was to find out which was the mostly strategies used by students among meta-cognitive and cognitive strategies. The result of this study showed that there were two kinds of strategy used by the students: meta-cognitive (80.31%) and cognitive (89.37%) strategies. Moreover, the most dominant meta-cognitive strategies used by students were; setting plans on how to complete the test, aware of the objective of the reading tasks, correct mistakes immediately, and checking the answers of reading tasks carefully before submitting the test. While the most dominant cognitive strategies used by the students were: guessing, scanning, and skimming. The reason why guessing, scanning, and skimming get the highest percentage and being the most dominant strategies chosen was that they were very easy and simple strategies to apply when facing such a reading text. They did not need much time to identify the text. In addition, the reason guessing also got a high percentage because it was the most effective way to use during the test by using a dictionary was not allowed.

Differential item function of gender in the mathematics elementary school tryout test

The purpose of this paper is to describe: 1) number of items in the elementary school mathematics national examination tryout test containing DIF gender and pattern; 2) functionality of differential tests on elementary school mathematics national examination tryout test tool organized by the Pythagoras tutoring institute. This study is a quantitative explorative descriptive study with a type of case research, because it describes the characteristics of the elementary school mathematics national examination tryout tests device and is not generalizable. The amount of data used comes from the answer patterns of 919 students consisting of 431 female students and 488 male students. As for the results of this study are: 1) the elementary school mathematics national examination tryout test kit has a different power ranging from 0.282 to 1,129 and the level of grain difficulty ranges from -3,365 to 2,838; 2) Items in the elementary school mathematics national examination try out test containing 34 items or as much as 87.2%; 3) the elementary school mathematics national examination tryout test kit benefited the female group in theta > -3.06 which was seen from the DTF (differential test function) graph in the male and female groups.

Analysis of the quality of test instrument and students’ accounting learning competencies at vocational school

The study is aimed at describing: (1) characteristics of the items of the national examination try-out test of the accounting subject matter in the 2015/2016 academic year on classical test theory and modern test theory; and (2) classification of students’ masteries in the learning of accounting. The study is explorative research. Analyses are conducted using the classical and modern test theories for item characteristics and descriptive quantitative for students’ masteries in accounting using the test set for the national examination try-out in the 2015/2016 academic year. A total of 414 students do the Package A test. Results show that (1) based on the classical test analyses, a number of 11 items (27.5%) belong to the “easy” category, 22 items (55%) “medium” category, and 7 items (17.5%) “difficult” category allowing a total of 19 (47.5%) to be categorized as good items; meanwhile, on the modern-theory analyses, a total of 34 items (85%) belong to the “good” category. (2) Around 38% of the students have competencies of the medium and low categories. Most students have difficulty in answering questions of the higher-order thinking levels.

The Effect of Using Educational Multimedia in Dictation on Students’ Listening Comprehension at MA Darul Hikmah Pekanbaru

The main goal of the study was to investigate the effect of using educational multimedia in dictation on students’ listening comprehension at MA Darul Hikmah Pekanbaru. This was a quasi-experimental research which involved control class and experimental class. The population of the study was 175 and the sample was 52. The instrument of the study had been tested its validity and reliability by conducting try-out test two times. The instrument was given in control class and experimental class before and after giving treatments. The treatments were only given to experimental class meanwhile in control class remained using the conventional teaching technique. The data were analyzed by using indipendent sample t-test and paired sample t-test then the effect size and improvement were calculted. The result of the study shows that both control class and experimental class had improvement of their listening comprehension. But, the improvement of experimental class was much higher that control class was. The improvement of listening comprehension in experimental class was 43,2% but in control class was only 11,5%. In short, it can be concluded that the using of educational multimedia in dictation provely could improve students’ listening comprehension.

The Comparison between National Final Examination Test Items and English Teacher Made-Test Items of 2010 and 2011

The objective of the paper is to determine the relevance between the scope of the national final examination test items in English lesson and the English teacher made test items. It is also to identify the relevance between the deepness of national final examination test items in English subject and the English teacher made test item. The finding showed that more than fifty percents of tryout out test items are not relevant with the national test items. Meanwhile, the final national test items were design with higher cognitive domain than teacher made test items. It means the teacher made test items (tryout) is more superficial than final national test items. It can be a reason why the students who are can pass the tryout test which is made in teacher cannot pass the national final examination test (standardized test). It is expected that this study provides empirical evidence to devise on their optimal uses in EFL teaching. Copyright © 2015 by Al-Ta'lim All right reserved

The planned development’s effect on the performance in ice hockey

The sports are growing everywhere in the world, so there is no other way to maintain or to increase the level of quality just the strategic planned development (GÉCZI, 2012), because thousands of specialist are working hardly on the better results worldwide. The aim of this study was to monitor the ice hockey players’ physical development in Hungary since 2007, focusing the results after opening the federations’ Methodical Center (MC). One can see a remarkable development during the last years in the domestic ice hockey, which is perceptible following the sport performance and results. The first step of the planned development was the reform of the curriculum in the coaches courses (from 2004 continuously) at every level, the second step was the opening our MC in 2010, where the Hungarian players and experts (coaches and officials) can develop their skills and their knowledge about the ice hockey. We examined the effect of the above mentioned procedures, comparing the national try-out test running events (10 m, 60 m, 6×9 m, 400 m, 1500 m) by the best twenty U18 players (N=80). According to the opening of the Methodical Center, we used the data from 2012, 2009, 2008 and 2007.

On twist springback in advanced high-strength steels

The sheet metal components made of advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) become fairly attractive in reducing weight and enhancing operational performance of products. However the corresponding forming process often generates more severe springback. This paper aims to investigate the behavior of twist springback in advanced high strength sheet components, where a twist rail was considered and the corresponding die and measurement tool were developed. Finite element model of the twist rail was first validated through a try-out test and then is used to carry out a parametric study on the twist springback. The results lead to an in-depth understanding of how the design and process parameters, such as transition ratio of cross-section width, corner angle, drawbead depth and material strength grade, affect the twist springback, thereby providing some insights into sensitivity analysis for the design of products and corresponding processes.

UK performance in IT is unimpressive says NEDC

The sheet metal components made of advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) become fairly attractive in reducing weight and enhancing operational performance of products. However the corresponding forming process often generates more severe springback. This paper aims to investigate the behavior of twist springback in advanced high strength sheet components, where a twist rail was considered and the corresponding die and measurement tool were developed. Finite element model of the twist rail was first validated through a try-out test and then is used to carry out a parametric study on the twist springback. The results lead to an in-depth understanding of how the design and process parameters, such as transition ratio of cross-section width, corner angle, drawbead depth and material strength grade, affect the twist springback, thereby providing some insights into sensitivity analysis for the design of products and corresponding processes.

Statistical Comprehension for Graduate Students in Physical Education: Test and Norms

Abstract The purpose of this study was to construct for use by graduate students in physical education valid, reliable, and parallel forms of a test of statistical comprehension, and to develop norms to measure their level of understanding of the statistical techniques and methods that frequently appear in the RESEARCH QUARTERLY. Procedures utilized in constructing the final forms of the test were: (a) using members of the AAHPER Research Council to establish content specifications and to select specific concepts to be included in the test, (b) developing 180 experimental test items dealing with understanding of 60 statistical concepts, (c) administering three tryout test forms to 196 graduate students in physical education at 10 colleges or universities, (d) selecting, based on the tryout test data, and the table of specifications, 50 test items for each of two final test forms. Data used to evaluate the test forms and to establish norms were obtained from the administration of both forms of the test to ...