Students' Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding the Use of E-Portfolio as an Alternative Form of Assessment: Results from a Pilot Survey in Greek Primary Education
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contribution of the eportfolio to the
development of positive attitudes and beliefs of students towards school and learning, as well
as to the acquisition of self-assessment skills by students. The method used is the experiment
using an experimental and a control group and two pre and post measurements. The survey
was carried out during the first trimester of the school year 2016-2017 and a sample of 40
pupils of the second grade of the elementary school in the city of Rhodes. The findings of the
survey show that students of both groups after the end of the intervention have a more
positive attitude towards school and learning, but the experimental group that utilized the
eportfolio has even higher rates of positive responses. In addition, in relation to the
contribution of the eportfolio to the development of self-assessment skills by students, the
students of the e-portfolio experimental group evaluated their performance higher than their
teacher's assessment.