Abstract
Muslim students are expected to have a profound interest in learning Islamic education so as to gain extreme understanding of their revealed religion. The study revealed that one of the factors affecting students’ interest in learning Islamic education is parents’ influence. The present study meant to identify the effect of pupils’ interest in learning Islamic education and also determine the extent to which students’ interest predict the learning performance of Islamic education among religious secondary schools’ students in Kuala Terengganu Malaysia. The study adopted Quantitative approach; a survey type of descriptive study was employed. A questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 335 students attending the national religious secondary schools in Kuala Terengganu. The collected data was analysed using a statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 19. The findings revealed that students’ interest in learning Islamic Education significantly predicts the learning performance of Islamic education at = .802, p = .000. Therefore, parents and teachers should use good inventive methods that will inspire students’ interest in an effort to make learning of Islamic education more expressive to the learners. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s1p105
Highlights
Academic attainment is stimulatingly a central issue of government, parents, teachers and community in general
Children's Islamic education is a task that Islam gave to parents where Islam promised a severe burden that the negligent will not even smell the fragrance of paradise rather to be among the dwellers
The respondents used in this study comprised 335 students going to national religious secondary school (SMKA) in kuala terennganu characterised by gendar and age
Summary
Academic attainment is stimulatingly a central issue of government, parents, teachers and community in general. Interest is referred as a content-exact motivational distinctive formed of inherent sensation-related and worth-related valences. It often identified as one of the important motivational constructs that influence students' engagement and achievement in learning (Shen & Chen, 2006). Zaiton and Salim (2012) indicate that one of the factors affecting students’ interest in learning Islamic education is parent’s influence, which prevents children from getting an adequate learning. Despite the serious burden for their negligence, many parents nowadays failed to fulfil this responsibility in acquiring Islamic education to their children. Lack of parental involvement in learning Islamic education helps to create failure at school and negatively affect the interest as well as an incentive for children. The present study aimed to determine the impacts of students’ interest in learning Islamic education as it found related positively to the learning outcomes
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