English Teacher’s Perceptions On Test Item Content Validity (A Case Study At A Senior High School In Banda Aceh)

To measure students' learning achievement accurately, the teacher should arrange a good test. A good test will give real information about students’ learning results and measure the ability of students. This research was conducted to know the senior high school English teacher’s perceptions of test item content validity. In collecting the data, qualitative research is used through interview. The result of interviewing the English teacher showed that making a test required careful planning and consideration also paying attention to the validity of the test and to several important considerations including alignment with learning objectives, material coverage, test format, difficulty level, time limit, assessment, and feedback when designing the test. A teacher must also carefully consider the content validity of a test to ensure that the test is an accurate and reliable measure of student learning. However, at that school, no evaluation or reviewer was looking at the validity of a test whether it is accurate and reliable or not.