Research+Methods

**Research and Methodology** Research Design: This research is exploring the impact of student-created digital storytelling by third grade students on student writing. It is qualitative research and will use the collective case study, also known as the multiple-case design (Johnson & Christensen, p. 408) I will use “convenience sampling” (Johnson & Christian, 2008, p. 238) a nonrandom sampling technique.

﻿I will implement the study in a minimum of two third grade classrooms and track the writing scores before digital storytelling and after to note any changes in student writing performance. There will be between 30 and 40 students in my study. One class will participate in creating digital storytelling projects as part of their writing instruction and one class will not.