Al-Misbah (Jurnal Islamic Studies)

Transformation of islamic religious education learning through religious literacy assessment instruments

2025-08-31T04:59:55+00:00

This study aims to assess the quality of the religious literacy assessment instrument and describe the religious literacy of elementary school students in IRE. This type of research is quantitative research with an instrument development approach using the Mardapi development model. The instrument is in the form of 25 multilevel multiple-choice questions, validated by three experts, and piloted on 233 students from nine elementary schools in the Special Region of Yogyakarta selected through a stratified random sampling technique. These schools represent high, medium, and low categories, so the results reflect the diversity of student ability levels. The analysis shows that the instrument is categorized as suitable for use, with high validity (0.85) and high reliability (0.80). The instrument is also assessed to meet scientific standards through Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), so it is able to measure religious literacy objectively and comprehensively. The measurement results show that the level of religious literacy of students is still low, namely 33.00%. This finding provides important insights for IRE teachers to develop more meaningful and transformative learning evaluations. In addition, the instruments developed can be a reference for other schools in developing comprehensive evaluations, while also building a religious, tolerant, and critical generation in facing the challenges of the times.

The influence of digital literacy on student engagement and academic achievement

2025-07-08T00:57:49+00:00

The development of digital technology has brought about major changes in the world of education, making digital literacy an important skill for students to adapt in the era of globalization. Students' ability to access, understand, and utilize digital information critically and ethically is believed to increase their engagement and academic achievement. This study aims to analyze the effect of digital literacy on student engagement and academic achievement at SMAIT Al-Multazam and identify the contribution of digital literacy in increasing student participation in learning and academic achievement. The method used was quantitative descriptive with a population of 118 students, data collection through Likert-scale online questionnaires, and statistical analysis using SPSS 24. The results showed that digital literacy significantly affected student engagement by 55.3% and academic achievement by 52.9%, with normally distributed data and linear relationships between variables and a statistically significant t-test. The implications of this study emphasize the importance of integrating digital literacy in the learning process to increase student engagement and academic achievement in the digital era.

Optimization of learning outcomes of moral beliefs through joyful learning genially for students

2025-07-01T06:31:50+00:00

This research is based on the results of the researcher's observations which show that the learning process in grade VII MTs Al Anwar, Cirebon Regency still applies conventional learning methods with less varied media use. The purpose of this research is to find out the optimization of learning outcomes of Akidah Akhlak through Joyful Learning Genially of MTs Al Anwar students in Cirebon Regency. This research was carried out with a quantitative approach through an experimental method, using the One Group Pretest-Posttest research design as the research design. Data was obtained by carrying out tests to evaluate student learning outcomes and documentation. Data analysis in this study was carried out using the Paired Sample T-Test, the results showed that: (1) The learning outcomes of students with an average score before the implementation of Akidah Akhlak learning through Joyful Learning Genially were 56.00. (2) The learning outcomes of students with an average score after implementing Akidah Akhlak learning through Joyful Learning Genially are 86.38. (3) The results of the hypothesis test were obtained with the value of sig. of 0.000 < 0.05, then the H₀ hypothesis is rejected and Hₐ is accepted. The results of the hypothesis test analysis showed significant differences so that it can be concluded that there is an optimization of learning outcomes of Akidah Akhlak through Joyful Learning Genially for MTs Al Anwar Students in Cirebon Regency.

Islamic education and interfaith tolerance

2025-04-16T23:04:50+00:00

This study aims to examine the contribution of Islamic education in fostering interfaith tolerance in multicultural rural communities, with a focus on Surobali Village, Kepahiang Regency, Bengkulu. The challenge of interfaith tolerance in rural communities arises because the implementation of Islamic education has not been fully effective in shaping awareness and tolerant attitudes, even though Islam teaches the principle of rahmatan lil 'alamin. The research gap lies in the lack of field studies highlighting contextual Islamic education practices in fostering social harmony. Using a qualitative approach through observation, interviews with religious leaders, educators, community members, and documentation of social-religious activities, this study found that integrative Islamic education that combines Islamic values with local wisdom such as cooperation, consultation, and mutual respect is able to create spaces for dialogue, strengthen interfaith interactions, and foster inclusive attitudes. These findings have implications for educators to design more moderate and contextual learning, for policymakers to support tolerance-based education programs, for religious leaders to strengthen inclusive preaching, and for future researchers to explore other dimensions such as economics and technology in building social cohesion. Overall, transformative Islamic education has proven to be a strategic foundation for strengthening tolerance and has the potential to guide educational policies toward a more inclusive and sustainable paradigm.

Relationship between religion, state, and politics: A study of the dynamics of islamic education in Indonesia

2025-10-01T05:30:39+00:00

The purpose of this research is to formulate Islamic education within the Indonesian context as a subsystem of the aspects of religion, state, and politics themselves. Therefore, it is essential to reformulate the position of Islamic education in the context of the nation and state as a representation of the aspects of religion, state, and politics. The background of this research is that Islamic education currently experiences a disorientation of purpose and a marginalized dominance of existence. For example, many Islamic educational institutions do not experience a significant increase in student enrollment, which could be due to a lack of contextual Islamic knowledge or unprofessional institutional management systems. Facing such a situation, it is important to find solutions so that Islamic education becomes more responsive to the fields of religion, state, and politics, so that it can adapt to national and state life. This research uses a qualitative method with a literature review type of research and a grounded theory approach. Data collection techniques use literature and documentation from various sources. Data analysis then uses heuristic analysis, verification, interpretation, and synthesis. The results of this research are that initially, there were three types of relationships between religion, state, and politics: religiously unfriendly secularism, religiously friendly ideology, and theocratic system. In the Indonesian context, which refers to a religiously friendly ideology system, Islamic education within the framework of the relationship between religion, state, and politics in Indonesia means that Islamic education about religion serves as a moral guide, Islamic education about the state serves as a system, constitution, and medium, and Islamic education about politics is about policy and social aspects. The conclusion obtained shows that these three aspects, namely religion, state, and politics, in the dynamics of Islamic education in Indonesia are formulated in social, governance, and environmental terms. This means that Islamic education as the basis of religion in Indonesia has a social role to shape the noble character of its society, Islamic education viewed from the perspective of the state is to implement a holistic system so that it can function optimally in society (governance), and Islamic education as politics is to be able to create and form a peaceful and prosperous environment.

Building a faithful and competent generation through transformative Islamic education

2025-11-06T07:35:33+00:00