Development of Reading Literacy Assessment Questions: An Effort to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking

Abstract

This study aims to (1) conduct needs analysis, (2) design literacy assessment questions, (3) validate literacy assessment questions, (4) test literacy assessment questions, (5) examine the validity and reliability of literacy assessment questions, and (6) analyze literacy assessment questions. This research employed a survey, need analysis, problem design, validation questions, revision questions, test questions, validity and reliability tests of questions, and item analysis of questions. The results show that 88% of students state that they still have difficulties to answer reading literacy assessment questions. The average validation score of the developed question items is 69.67 (87.08%). The average validation score of language is 66.5 (83.12%). Meanwhile, the validity and reliability tests indicate that 50 developed items are categorized as valid and reliable. The data on field trials of the developed items show that 50 question items of the questionnaire are readily used at school to improve reading literacy assessment questions.