Research-informed practice: The Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycle
Written By: Author(s): Gary Jones and Deborah Netolicky
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What’s the idea?
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle is a tool for planning, implementing, refining and improving an intervention or change.
What does it mean?
The PDSA Cycle is designed to help you answer three questions:
What are you trying to accomplish?
How will you know whether the change is an improvement?
What changes can you make that will result in improvement? (Langley et al., 2009)
What are the implications for teachers?
There are four steps that are designed to be carried out repeatedly to help answer new questions as the intervention unfolds and develops:
Plan the intervention. Consider the context, identify the problem and define the change. Identify the benefits, risks and measures of success. Make predictions of what will happen and design a way to the test the change at an appropriate scale, for example, class, year group, phase, school or multi-academy trust
Do. Implement the change as planned. Collect data and document problems alongside unexpected observation
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This article was published in May 2019 and reflects the terminology and understanding of research and evidence in use at the time. Some terms and conclusions may no longer align with current standards. We encourage readers to approach the content with an understanding of this context.
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