Running Head: ISLAMIC RELIGIOSITY INDEX AMONG MALAY STUDENTS 2 nd International Conference on Language, Education, Humanities and Innovation 29 th & 30 th DECEMBER, 2015 32 2 ICLEHI 2015 47 Bhasah Abu Bakar Islamic Religiosity Index among Malay Students of the Secondary Schools in Malaysia Bhasah Abu Bakar, Norakyairee Mohd Raus, Maziahtusima Ishak, Sakinah Ahmad, Razak Mohd. Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Nilai, Malaysia maziahtusima@gmail.com ABSTRACT The appreciation of Islamic values among the secondary school students has become an issue that needs to be addressed by society. There are many social problems are now arising, and will probably become epidamic if it is not being checked at the outset. One way to foresee the conditions that may occur in the future is to create a spiritual index that can explain the current situation, which will postulate or predict the future. The formation of Islamic Value Index ( IVI ) was developed by combining all the components of Islamic practices that were being taught at the primary school and became the basis of Islamic curriculum and an indicator of the future practices. Researchers managed to filter seven components of the Islamic values that had been collected and identified from the curriculum and become the basis of IVI. The instrument used for the IVI studies was earlier developed by Bhasah et al (2010 ) consisting of twelve components later reduced to seven components, which include: (i) solat, (ii) doa, (iii) Quran recitation , (iv) memorizing the Quran, (v) sunatullah, (vi) Self-commitment and (vii) environment (family, teachers, school and friends). Through the process of factor analysis, the number of items were reduced to 80 with each having a factor loading minimum 0.30 and more than 50 % of these items have factor loadings greater than 0.50. Reliability of the instrument equal to Cronbach alpha of 0.96. Introduction Communities often complain that the quality of Islamic practices of our youth who are in their high schools has decreased based on the reports of their discipline in mass media. We do not have a benchmark that can be used as a determinant or indicator of their level of Islamic appreciation. What is the measuremanet like ? Islamic Value Index (IVI) is and index created by a group of researchers at USIM to build an index in order to determine the quality or the level of Islamic adherence to Islamic value by secondary school students in Malaysia today. This is an index that indicates the stability or quality of the implementation of Islamic values among secondary school students nowadays. It is more as a result of the teaching of Islamic education when they were in primary school. A higher value indicates the quality IVI is good and if the value is low, thus indicating poor quality IVI. This index takes into account all the aspects of Islam that has been taught to the students while they are in elementary school. These Islamic values consists of ( i ) sunatullah, ( ii ) to read the Quran, ( iii ) to memorize the Quran, (iv) solat, (v) doa, (vi) environment (teachers, school, family, friends), and (vii) self-commitment. This IVI index helps to predict the pattern of early Islamic practices of our youth of today for the future. This index can be compared from year to year as a benchmark in determining the practices of Islamic values in our Malay secondary school students. The Muslim students need to realize that what is expected by the MOE is similar to what being expected by their parents from their young children studying at secondry schools. Thus,