A methodological review for the Data Must Speak positive deviance research: insights from positive deviance, behavioural sciences, implementation research and scaling science

This methodological review presents key definitions, concepts and methodologies of those approaches to guide and inform the development and implementation of the DMS research at country level. By drawing on existing examples from research on education and other fields, this review also offers best practices and lessons learned from those approaches that can be used as a common reference and standard language for future application.