An investigation of the alignment between the O-NET test items for grade 6 students with the test blueprint

The aim of this paper is to prove that a test blueprint is a good guide for teachers to prepare students for the O-NET test instead of using the more common Basic Core Curriculum. This study will show how the O-NET test items align with the test blueprint. Moreover, it will also reveal the frequency of each indicator according to the test blueprint appearing in the O-NET tests from the most to least frequent indicators respectively. The samples used in this study were 2017 and 2018 O- NET tests. A matching sheet is used as a tool to collect the data. The data is divided into two parts.
The first part was collected from an investigation of the alignment between the test items and the test blueprint using a test-curriculum alignment method. And the second part involved using quantitative data to find the most popular indicator appearing in the tests from the first part by using a statistical method. The results demonstrated how the O-NET tests align with the test blueprint item by item and the most frequent indicator appearing in the O-NET tests is F1.1: Gr 6/4 (tell the main idea and answer questions from listening to and reading dialogues, simple tales and stories) while the least frequent
is F1.2: Gr 6/2 (use order/requests to give instructions).