Reading Questions of Summative Test Based on Bloom’s Revised at SMP Muhammadiyah 07 Medan

This study is a descriptive qualitative research which aimed to analyze the cognitive
domain of reading questions of summative test based on Bloom’s Revised
Taxonomy towards IX, VIII, VII fullday and regular classes of SMP
Muhammadiyah 07 Medan. The data were 6 tests consisted of 111 reading
questions which taken from English final examination and the data were analyzed
by using observation sheet of HOTS based on Bloom’s revised taxonomy and wellproportion
test by using Bloom’s revised taxonomy. Based on the data analysis, the
existing English summative test had not distributed cognitive domains
proportionally and fulfilled the portion of Bloom’s higher order thinking skills,
except only VIII regular class. The findings implied that there were 2 levels of
higher order thinking skills occurred in student summative test of SMP
Muhammadiyah 01 Medan, they were analyzing (6,3%) and evaluating skill
(0,9%), however there was no items on the level of creating skill. The higher order
thinking skills used in this summative test of reading comprehension text could only
test the analyzing and evaluating skill in determining the meaning of text relates
one of another and make a judgement based on criteria and standards through
checking and critiquing.