The Effect of Electronic Portfolio Assessment on the Writing Performance of Iranian EFL Learners

The present study attempted to investigate the impact of electronic portfolio assessment on performance of IranianEFL learners’ writing. To do so, 30 advanced EFL learners who participated in a TOEFL preparation course wereselected as the participants of the study. After administrating a truncated version of TOEFL proficiency test, they wererandomly assigned to control and experimental groups. The experimental group was given a treatment includingelectronic portfolio assessment, while the control group was given a placebo. To collect the required data, twoinstruments (a writing pre-test and a writing post-test) were administered to both groups during the experimentation.Subsequently, the learners’ scores were collected and the results were statistically analyzed. Inter-rater reliability,matched t-test, and independent t-test were calculated. The findings revealed that the participants of the experimentalgroup outperformed those of the control group and thus it was concluded that electronic portfolio assessment canimprove the writing ability and can be considered as a motivating assessment strategy.

کلیدواژه ها:

electronic portfolio ، assessment ، writing assessment ، writing instruction