Improving Students' Critical Thinking Skills and Tolerance Attitudes in Islamic Religious Education Learning Using the Question and Answer Method at SD Negeri 27 Limau Asam

This study aims to improve students' critical thinking skills and tolerance attitudes in Islamic religious education learning by using the question and answer method. This study is a classroom action research that uses four steps, namely planning, action, observation and reflection. The subjects of this study were elementary school students. The data for this study were obtained by test and observation techniques. Tests are used to measure learning outcomes and observations are used to analyze teacher and student learning activities. The data analysis technique used in this study is descriptive statistics by comparing the results obtained with indicators of research success. The results of the study indicate that the question and answer method can improve students' critical thinking skills and tolerance attitudes in Islamic religious education learning. This can be seen from the increase in the percentage of student learning completion in each cycle with details of the pre-cycle 48.71%, the first cycle 66.39% and in the second cycle it increased to 89.66%. Thus, the use of the question and answer method can be used as an alternative to improve students' critical thinking skills and tolerance attitudes in Islamic religious education learning.