A Fishbone Diagram or Cause and Effect Diagram is an improvement tool used to identify and document the possible causes of a given effect. This is important in considering all the possible causes not simply jumping to solution.
This template can be used to manually document a Cause and Effect diagram.
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Fishbone Diagram: Variation in Student Achievement
The Fishbone Diagram or Cause and Effect Diagram can be used to identify and document the possible causes of a given effect. This example prepared by QLA documents many of the causes of variation in student achievement.
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