The Impact of Using E-Portfolio on Student's Creativity

Fast advances in the information and communication domain in the present age, has directed technology towards human needs. One of the main aspects of mankind’s needs is the creativity which has effective role on growth and evolution of humankind. Up to now, the effects of many variables have been examined on creativity, but the impact of E-portfolio on creativity is somehow ignored. Goal: The main purpose of this paper was to investigate the impact of E-portfolio on students’ creativity. The quasi-experimental method with pre-test and post-test plan with two groups namely, control and experiment groups are used in this research. First, a creativity pre-test was used on the two groups. Then the experiment group was exposed to independent variable for one semester. At the end of the semester post-test was done on both of groups and the results were analyzed by MANOVA for differenced scores (pre/post test). Finding of this project shows that E-portfolio has effective role on creativity and sub-components. In general, the finding shows that using E-portfolio in education promotes students’ creativity.