Best Start Training and Support Strategy 2016-17
Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) Template
Part 1: The “thinking part”
What are we trying to accomplish? By when?
Select which of the short term outcome areas from your logic model this PDSA cycle is working towards:
⃝ Service accessibility
⃝ Service continuity and collaboration
⃝ Relationship-based practices
⃝ Active outreach and engagement of families experiencing vulnerability and all Aboriginal families
⃝ Family awareness and beliefs about early learning
State which ‘stretch goal’ from your logic model this PDSA cycle is working towards:
How will we know that a change is an improvement?
Develop an indicator which will measure this stretch goal (and that this PDSA will contribute towards):
N.B. There is no need to develop an indicator for your stretch goal until Module 6
What change can we make that will result in improvement?
State which strategy from your logic model is connected to this stretch goal (and which this PDSA sits
under):
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Brainstorm and list change ideas attached to this strategy: (Keep ideas small, think “what can we get
started by next week?” and consider the evidence, what families tell you works, your hunches)
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Which one of these change ideas will you be trying in this PDSA?
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Part 2: The “implementing part” or PDSA cycle
Doing
Act
Plan
Study
Do
Use the table below to breakdown your selected change idea into a PDSA cycle. Subsequent PDSA cycles can
be documented by copying and pasting the table.
PDSA cycle 1
Plan
Change idea:
Plan
What?
Who?
When?
Where?
Prediction (Why might it work? What will happen as a result?)
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Data to be collected (How will you know if the idea is effective?)
Baseline data
Do
Was the plan executed? Document any unexpected events or problems
Study
Review and reflect on the results. Did the change idea meet your prediction? If not, why not?
*Include qualitative & quantitative data
Change data
Act
What will you take forward from this cycle?
⃝ Adapt: Improve the change idea and continue testing (additional PDSA cycles)
⃝ Adopt: Implement the change idea on a larger scale and test this (additional PDSA
cycles)
⃝ Abandon: Discard this change idea and try a different one
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