The Construction of the Reading The Construction of the Reading Literacy Test for Grade 4-6 Studentsthrough Learning Enrichment Network

Abstract

The objectives of this research paper were to present the construction and the quality inspection of a three-level reading literacy test; Level1 Comprehension Reading, Level2 Analysis Reading and Level3 Critical Reading, for students in grades 4-6 through Learning Enrichment Network. A participatory research was used by research teams and academic learning network partners, i.e. teachers, assessment experts, educational supervisors, and model teachers, to construct and to inspect the quality of the test, to validate the content and to validate the test structure. The tryout group was 44 elementary school students, Grades 4-6, Lampang Province, purposive sampling, to inspect the quality, the difficulty index, discrimination index and the reliability coefficient Cronbach's alpha. The target group for using the real reading literacy test that has been assessed the quality was 1,502 students from20  schools in Lampang, who participated in the research project on the Development of Elementary Children Grades 4-6 with Reading Literacy through Lampang Learning Enrichment Network. The research findings were that the test was constructed as a multiple choice test. A four-choice multiple choice form in which students read the texts and have 50 questions about the texts. The objectives were to measure reading literacy: 17 items of Comprehension Reading, 17 items of Analysis Reading, and 16 items Critical Reading. A full score was 50 points. Reading Literacy Score was the sum of all three parts of the scores. Scores were taken as percentage points. The reading literacy was classified into 4 levels: very good, good, fair and need to be improved. The average difficulty level index was 0.494, meaning it was moderately difficult. The mean of the discrimination index was 0.294, meaning there was a valid discrimination. The alpha coefficient of reliability for the overall reading literacy test was 0.794, meaning high confidence. Classify reading literacy into 4 levels: very good, good, fair and need to be improved. The average difficulty level index was 0.494, meaning it was moderately difficult. The mean of the discrimination index was 0.294, meaning there was a valid discriminatory power. The alpha part reliability coefficient of the overall reading literacy was 0.794. means having high confidence