Cognitive Skills in Summative Test Items of Secondary Vocational Schools Across Curriculum (School-Based Curriculum and Curriculum 2013)

Abstract

ABSTRACT BernadettaYuniatiAkbariah University Diponegoro Semarang yuniakbarii@yahoo.com Assessment is an essential part of measuring students’ learning achievement. One form of assessing is by administering tests. Every year schools hold summative test to measure students’ achievement. The items of the tests can be examined to see the objectives of the tests whether it meet the goal of the curriculum. In relation with cognitive process, the item tests can be examined to see to what extent the thinking level will be achieved by the tasks given in the items. In addition, the test formats and the topic contents in the items are also influence the levels of thinking process. This research analyzes the cognitive processes or thinking levels of the test items. The items as the objects of this research are taken from annual odd summative tests that involves eight academic years. The purpose of this research is to see the distribution of the categories of cognitive process in test items. The result shows that from the overall items 84% were in lower thinking level. Remembering (69.5%) consisted of recognizing 43.1% and recalling 26.4%. While category understand reached of 26.4% and the rest, 4.1%, were in higher thinking level (analyze). Keyword: cognitive process, test format, syllabus contents, KTSP, K-13