Where can you use the Fishbone Diagram in the PDSA Cycle

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Where can you use the Fishbone Diagram in the
PDSA Cycle?
a.k.a. Cause and Effect
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Why Use the Fishbone in the Classroom

• Categorize many potential causes of a problem or
  issue in an orderly way.
• It helps to analyze what is really happening in a
  process.
• It can help students learn about new processes
  and procedures in the classroom or school setting.

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This is an example of a Fishbone
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Washington D.C.
Judicial Branch
Checks and Balances
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Ways to use the (cause and effect) Fishbone
Diagram

• Why are students
• not paying attention in
  class?
• forgetting their homework?
• doing the wrong assignment?
• being late to school?
• doing poorly on tests?
• missing school?
• taking too long to do an
  assignment?
• losing papers?

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Things to remember about the Fishbone Diagram

• There should be no judgments made about ideas
  offered from students.
• Everyone will have an opinion about what causes a
  problem. Organizing these ideas improves the
  chance that good ideas can be tested.
• Label the main bones of the diagram in ways
  that are best for your problem or event.
• Use the Fishbone Diagram to help solve problems
  as well as making plans.

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Relations Diagram v.s. Fishbone Diagram

• Use the Relations Diagram when students are
  having trouble getting to the root problem
  because only symptoms seem to be apparent.
• Use the Fishbone Diagram when students have many
  ideas and or opinions about the causes of the
  problem.