The development of speaking Skill's instrument in elementary school with rasch model analysis

Abstract

This study was motivated by the incomprehension of some elementary school teachers about topic learning and how to teach the topic learning of speaking skill in elementary school students. This study aims to evaluate speaking skill of elementary school students through the development of speaking skill instruments and analyzed in Rasch model. The study employed descriptive analysis with a cross-sectional design. The participants of the study were the students of a State Elementary School in Indonesia consisting of 43 students of grade VI at Layungsari Elementary School and 47 students of grade VI at Balandongan elementary school. The results of the analysis show that the construct of the instrument used measures one variable, namely is speaking skill of elementary school students and from 90 participants, 14 people (15.5%) are included in the high ability category, the category there are 63 moderate abilities (70%), and 13 (14.4%) low ability categories.