The Impact of the Electronic Portfolio on the Thinking Disposition at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

The inclusive objective of the present study was to analyze the impact of the electronic portfolio on the thinking disposition at Shahid Beheshti University of medical sciences. This applied study was conducted with a mixed approach using a qualitative and quantitative approach with exploratory design. In the qualitative section, the Delphi method was used, and in quantitative part, the descriptive survey method was applied. In the qualitative section, the statistical population consisted of 18 professors of Shahid Beheshti medical Univeristy of whom 13 people were selected by purposive sampling method based on the saturation law, and 1665 graduate students and residents of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences were included in the quantitative section among whom 312 people were selected as the sample using stratified random sampling method based on Cochran's formula. To collect data, researcher-made questionnaires of electronic portfolio with Cronbach's alpha equal to 0.884 and total validity equal to 0.658. and Hayati’ thinking disposition questionnaire with Cronbach's alpha value of 0.880 and total validity of 0.530 were used. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equations were used to analyze the data. R2 values for all dimensions of the electronic portfolio questionnaire are at a higher than strong level, so there is a strong positive and significant relationship between the electronic portfolio variable with all its dimensions. Considering the R2 values of (0.510) and path coefficients of (0.590) between the two variables, the effect of electronic portfolio on thinking disposition was above average. Therefore, it can be concluded that the effect of electronic portfolio on the thinking disposition of graduate students and residents of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences has become positive and significant.