Multimedia Islamic Religious Education Based on Spiritual and Emotional Intelligence to Improve the Character of University Students

Abstract

The purpose of the subject pendidikan agama Islam (pai) or Islam religion education (IRE) in a public university is to develop the faith and character of students. however, the instruction of IRE at the State University of Malang (UM) tends to develop a cognitive domain. A multimedia teaching of IRE, based on spiritual and emotional intelligence, is considered a solution due to its effectiveness in developing morality among students. Therefore, this research aims to describe the student’s perception of multimedia teaching of IRE and its effectiveness in improving the students’ character. The study utilizes a quantitative research method and a pre–post-test design was chosen for the experiment. In total, 31 students of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science from the Universitas Negeri Malang in the even semesters of 2018. Data were collected through an attitude scale and questionnaire, which were then analysed using the paired t-test and descriptive quantitative analysis. The research findings revealed that the multimedia of IRE gets a tstatistics of 6.362 with a significance level of 0.000; score ttable at free degree 31 and real degree 0.05 was 2.042. On comparing these scores, tstatistics > ttable or a significance score < 0.05 was considered as a significant difference in the mean score between the pre- and post-tests. Regarding the student perception, all students praised the multimedia mode with an average score of 85.2. To conclude, the multimedia IRE based on spiritual and emotional intelligence can improve student’s character and was well appraised by them. Keywords: multimedia of teaching, Islam religion education, spiritual intelligence, emotional intelligence, character