This study was conducted based on the expectation that when making an e-portfolio, an essential requirement
for design majoring students to apply for a job, a metacognition-based configuration program will help
produce greater achievement in design. This study aimed to identify what effects a metacognition-based
e-portfolio configuration program would have on design majoring students’ achievement in design. To that
end, an experiment was conducted on the fourth-year students in the Department of Design at K University
located in Chungcheongbuk-do for eight weeks from the first week in April to the last week in May, 2017.
The students’ achievement in design was measured before and after the application of the program, and
a 2 x (2) mixed variable analysis was conducted to verify the effects of the metacognition-based e-portfolio
configuration program. Based on the pre- and post-tests conducted on the control and experimental
groups, average trend graphs were created. The graphs displayed no apparent difference in the pre-test
scores of all sub-factors between the control group and the experimental group, but a large difference in
the post-test scores with the experimental group showing a considerable improvement in the students’
achievement in design. This suggests the effectiveness of a metacognition-based e-portfolio configuration
program. In other words, it was found that a metacognition-based e-portfolio configuration program contributes
to enhancing design-majoring students’ achievement in design.