Using positive deviance to improve student performance

Using positive deviance techniques to improve smoking cessation outcomes in New South Wales prison settings.

Average smoking prevalence among New South Wales (NSW) prisoners exceeds 72%. Most inmates have no intention to stop smoking in the short term, making management of prisonbased smoking cessation (Quit) programs difficult.1-3 The NSW Tobacco Action Plan identifies prisoners as a priority group for smoking cessation initiatives.4 The cost to Justice Health of structured smoking cessation programs...

Research in action: using positive deviance to improve quality of health care

BACKGROUND Despite decades of efforts to improve quality of health care, poor performance persists in many aspects of care. Less than 1% of the enormous national investment in medical research is focused on improving health care delivery. Furthermore, when effective innovations in clinical care are discovered, uptake of these innovations is often delayed and incomplete. In this paper, we build ...

Intervention strategies to improve student performance

Student performance has dominated current discussions on educational matters and many believe that the new curriculum is not yet absorbed in schools and consequently student performance leaves much to be desired. This has resulted in finger pointing among stakeholders. However, the fact of the matter is that something should be done to improve the current status quo. Every one has a right to ba...

Using Course and Student Profiles to Improve Student Success

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