[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/) # Engagement & critique How others use, apply and argue with this work, criticism included. This bears on reach and reception, not on whether the theory is correct. 240 entries. - [Undergraduate organizational leadership and management curriculum built on VMCL and DSRP](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/46) — Regis University, 2000-2003. The earliest institutional adoption of DSRP and VMCL located so far, and one of the few that is a teaching commitment rather than a citation: a course sequence has to be… - [Local Tsunami Relief Effort Is Close to Home for Cornell Grad Student](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/75) — Crawford F, 2005. Coverage of the work in Cornell Chronicle. - [Did Outreach Really Work? Cornell team will develop tools to evaluate science and technology education](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/82) — Steele B, 2006. Coverage of the work in Cornell Chronicle. - [Dr. Derek Cabrera Interviews in Systems Thinking and Social Entrepreneurialism](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/89) — Streeter D, 2007. Coverage of the work in Cornell E-Clips. - [Thinking Outside the Block: Two alumni launch toy to foster abstract thinking in kids and adults alike](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/94) — Lang S, 2007. Coverage of the work in Cornell Chronicle. - [“Systems Thinking” Special Issue — nine systems scientists respond to DSRP (Datta, Reynolds, Rogers, Wasserman, Nowell, Hummelbrunner, Forrest, Midgley)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/95) — Evaluation and Program Planning 31(3), 2008. A peer-reviewed special issue of responses — supportive and critical — to the DSRP theory. - [A Tool for Implementing DSRP in Programme Evaluation](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/96) — Hummelbrunner R, 2008. Very strong applied support, and the most practice-grounded response in the set. Hummelbrunner states his agreement with the importance and utility of the four rules and… - [Additional Thoughts on Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/97) — Forrest J, 2008. Supportive conceptual and practitioner commentary. Forrest says he was particularly struck by the development of Distinction, System, Relationship and Perspective as rul… - [Beyond the Frontier: A Global Identity Crisis](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/98) — Forsythe P, 2008. Coverage of the work in Ecological Society of America podcast. - [Blockbuster: A Toy That's More Than Child's Play](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/99) — Staff, 2008. Coverage of the work in Cornell Alumni Magazine. - [Conceptualizing Systems Thinking in Evaluation](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/103) — Nowell B, 2008. Strong theoretical endorsement of the elemental approach, with a normative-competency critique. Nowell sees the identification of elemental patterns of thought as a foun… - [Cornell Faculty Identify Climate Change as World's Most Pressing Problem, study finds](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/104) — Lang S, 2008. Coverage of the work in Cornell Chronicle. - [Educational Toys and Games](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/107) — Staff, 2008. Coverage of the work in Buzzle. - [Hold That Thought](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/109) — Staff, 2008. Coverage of the work in NCIIA. - [Is It Systems Thinking or Just Good Practice in Evaluation?](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/110) — Rogers P, 2008. A serious discriminant-validity challenge, and not a rejection. Rogers accepts that the four ideas are relevant to evaluation; her question is whether they are uniquely… - [Learning to Think](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/111) — Staff, 2008. Coverage of the work in Ithaca Times. - [Next Steps: A Human Service Program System Exemplar](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/113) — Wasserman D, 2008. Strong applied adoption and extension. Wasserman accepts the four rules and shows how they can structure real human-service program evaluation, using DSRP to construct a… - [Parenting a Thinking Child](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/114) — Staff, 2008. Coverage of the work in Ithaca Journal. - [Response to paper “Systems Thinking” by D. Cabrera et al.: Systems thinking from a critical systems perspective](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/115) — Reynolds M, 2008. Constructive theoretical critique. Reynolds treats DSRP as belonging to a legitimate family of systems-thinking frameworks and engages its architecture rather than dismi… - [Response to paper “Systems Thinking” by D. Cabrera et al.: Systems thinking: An evaluation practitioner's perspective](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/116) — Datta LE, 2008. Positive, and explicitly evidence-demanding. Datta finds the formulation simple, clear and highly relevant to practice, then separates those conceptual merits from evide… - [Response to paper “Systems thinking” by D. Cabrera et al.:: The unification of systems thinking: Is there gold at the end of the rainbow?](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/117) — Midgley, G., 2008. Qualified theoretical support with a significant methodological critique. Midgley takes DSRP seriously as a unifying theory and does not reject the four-pattern architec… - [Teacher Wins Unsung Heroes Award](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/119) — Staff, 2008. Coverage of the work in Herndon Observer. - [Think Outside the Blocks](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/121) — Staff, 2008. Coverage of the work in Sahm Reviews. - [ThinkBlocks Rave Reviews](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/122) — Staff, 2008. Coverage of the work in Cincinnati Parent. - [Heroes of Giftedness: An Inspirational Guide for Gifted Students and Their Teachers](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/128) — Fisher M, Fisher E (eds.), 2009. Coverage of the work in Gifted Education Press. - [A Simple Solution to a Complex Problem](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/132) — Wheeler G, 2010. Article in ASCD Express. - [Dr. Cabrera and the Patterns of Thinking Method at Fairfax County Public Schools](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/133) — Fairfax County Public Schools, 2010. A recorded talk, lecture or film: School Scene (television). - [Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/135) — Williams & Hummelbrunner, 2010. Systems-evaluation book that incorporates DSRP theory. - [How Thinking Works / The 22nd Century Mind (TEDx talks)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/139) — Cabrera, D., 2011, 2013. Public talks introducing DSRP to general audiences. - [Patterns of Thinking at PES!](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/140) — Kraft J, 2011. Coverage of the work in Providence School blog. - [An Introduction to Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/141) — Midgley G, 2012. A recorded talk, lecture or film: CSIRO keynote. - [Derek Cabrera, systems thinking, and DSRP](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/143) — Howard Silverman, 2012. A post that explains and reflects on DSRP as a way of framing systems thinking for a general readership. - [Officials Praise Plans for the ThinkSTEM Academy in Ulster](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/145) — Loewenstein J, 2012. Coverage of the work in The Daily Review. - [A ThinkSTEM Teacher's Story](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/148) — Rossi L, 2013. Coverage of the work in CRL / Edison Muckers. - [Green Hills School Rethinks Teaching Methods](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/150) — Carlson J, 2013. Coverage of the work in New Jersey Herald. - [Thinking at Every Desk](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/154) — Mosey SA, 2013. Coverage of the work in News. The segment documents DSRP-related practices being used with elementary students and includes teacher, parent, and administrator reports of… - [ThinkSTEM Gets Five Thousand Dollar Grant](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/155) — Staff, 2013. Coverage of the work in weny.com. - [A New Spin on Teaching and Learning](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/157) — Clarke K, 2014. Coverage of the work in Blog. - [An Introduction to Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/158) — Midgley G, 2014. A recorded talk, lecture or film: Cornell Systems Thinking v2.0 Conference keynote. - [Classroom Design Promotes Student-Centered Learning](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/159) — ASCD SmartBrief, 2014. Coverage of the work in ASCD. - [Cornell Tech's Levitt Says Boost K-12 Computational Literacy](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/160) — Ju A, 2014. Coverage of the work in Cornell Chronicle. - [Cornell TED Talk Takes on Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/161) — Hayes M, 2014. Coverage of the work in Ithaca Journal. - [Designing a Classroom Where Ithaca Students Can Learn Better and Longer](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/163) — Barrett E, 2014. Coverage of the work in Ithaca Times. - [Despite Budget Cuts, Ithaca School Teachers Continue With Trainings](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/164) — Clarke K, Cucolo K, 2014. Coverage of the work in The Ithacan. The article documents sustained classroom use of DSRP and includes a teacher-reported example of improved student performance on a l… - [DeWitt Middle School Implements New Classroom Design](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/165) — Fernando N, Li J, 2014. Coverage of the work in Ithaca Week. - [DSRP and VMCL Implementation at Ithaca City School District](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/166) — Brown L, 2014. A recorded talk, lecture or film: Cornell Systems Thinking v2.0 Conference plenary. - [Getting What You Pay For in Teacher Evaluations](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/167) — Ferlazzo L, 2014. Coverage of the work in Education Week. - [Ithaca Schools' Graduation Rate Goes Up](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/168) — Friend K, 2014. Coverage of the work in The Ithaca Voice. The article documents improved educational outcomes during a period of broader instructional and technological change in ICSD w… - [Technical Assistance to ThinkSTEM Academy](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/172) — Johnson et al., 2014. Article in Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory. - [TED-Style Event Focuses on Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/173) — Hernández S, 2014. Coverage of the work in Cornell Chronicle. - [The Secret Sauce of Formative Assessment](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/174) — Ferlazzo L, 2014. Coverage of the work in Education Week. - [Answering Questions About the World's Water Security Problems](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/179) — USDA, 2015. Coverage of the work in USDA blog. - [Ithaca College Undergraduate Systems Thinking Course](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/180) — Ithaca College, 2015-2017 - [Review: Systems Thinking Made Simple: New Hope for Solving Wicked Problems](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/183) — Emerson, 2015. Direct independent engagement with DSRP from a systems-engineering perspective. Emerson describes DSRP as the four foundational “simple rules” of the Cabreras’ approach,… - [ThinkWater / USDA — systems thinking in water education & extension](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/185) — USDA ThinkWater, 2015–2017. USDA-funded national program applying DSRP in water education; cited in White House water-summit commitments. - [USDA Spends $900,000 to Teach MetaThinking About Water to Children](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/186) — Fox News, 2015. Coverage of the work in Fox News. - [USDA Spends $900,000 to Teach MetaThinking About Water to Children](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/187) — Free Beacon, 2015. Coverage of the work in Free Beacon. - [$10M Question: How Would You Redesign High School?](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/190) — O'Connor K, 2016. Coverage of the work in Ithaca Journal. The source contributes evidence that DSRP was incorporated into real-world school-reform efforts alongside VMCL and was used as p… - [A Principal's Perspective: Why Engineering?](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/191) — Kraft J, 2016. Coverage of the work in Get Caught Engineering. - [Addressing the Problem of Voter Turnout: An Application of Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/192) — Hansen M, 2016. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [Approaching the Enrollment Problem in South Punjab Through Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/193) — Bilal M, 2016. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [Commitments to Action on Building a Sustainable Water Future](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/195) — The White House, 2016. Coverage of the work in The White House. - [Cornell Policy Review — Systems Thinking / DSRP special issue](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/196) — Cornell Policy Review, 2016–2017. Special issues applying DSRP to public-policy problems (immigration, water, poverty, etc.). - [Cornell University Institute for Public Affairs Systems Thinking Course](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/197) — Cornell University, 2016-2021. CIPA chose Cabrera's DSRP as the basis of their graduate level systems thinking course - [Developing an Understanding of Violence using the DSRP Theory as a Framework](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/200) — MacGill, 2016. Applies DSRP as the analytic frame to redefine violence in systems terms, deriving the definition from boundary-setting in distinctions and tracing systems, relationship… - [Examining Enumeration of Tigers in India Through a Systems Thinking Approach](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/203) — Mehrotra N, 2016. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [Fact Sheet: President Obama Announces Over $240 Million in New STEM Commitments at the 2015 White House Science Fair](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/204) — The White House, 2016. Coverage of the work in The White House. - [How Can We Use Systems Thinking to Find a Solution to the Problem of Poverty in Panama?](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/207) — Muschett M, 2016. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [Land Tenure Security for Urban Poor in India: A Systems Thinking Approach](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/208) — Kumar A, 2016. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [Systems Thinking Symposium Attracts 700 People](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/216) — Morrison N, Lennox LJ, 2016. Coverage of the work in Cornell CIPA. he symposium demonstrates that DSRP was being taught and applied by graduate students, researchers, fellows, and practitioners acro… - [Systems Thinking With Derek Cabrera of CRLab](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/217) — Ackley J, 2016. Coverage of the work in System Smarts podcast. - [Turning Over Turnover: Thinking Systemically About Worker Retention in Texas' Child Protective Services](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/218) — Speck H, 2016. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [Understanding the Struggles of Small Coffee Producers in Chiapas: A Systems Thinking Approach](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/219) — De la Rosa V, 2016. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [Using Systems Thinking to Understand City Economic Competitiveness and its Connection with Workforce Development Involvement](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/220) — Moretz D, 2016. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [USMA West Point System Engineering Course](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/221) — USMA West Point, 2016-present. USMA Systems Engineering courses adopt DSRP as foundational elements of study. - [What Are We Trying to Say? A Systems Thinking Approach to the 'Free Speech' Debate](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/222) — Wolfe H, 2016. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [A 'New' Paradigm for Education: Fostering Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/224) — Cobb V, 2017. Coverage of the work in Huffington Post. - [Book Review of Systems Thinking Made Simple: New Hope for Solving Wicked Problems](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/226) — Solin, 2017. A signed journal book review that evaluates the DSRP book and reports applying DSRP, MAC and VMCL in the ThinkWater national education program. - [Choosing a Side: Examining the Abortion Debate](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/228) — Reeves K, 2017. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [Documentary Examines Schools That Emphasize Critical Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/230) — Walsh M, 2017. Coverage of the work in Education Week. - [Documentary Ignites Conversation Around Aim of Education](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/231) — Harper A, 2017. Coverage of the work in EducationDive. - [Educational Documentary Re Streaming for Free Online This Fall](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/232) — BWW News Desk, 2017. Coverage of the work in Broadway World. - [Enriquez and Davis Selected for USDA ThinkWater Fellowship](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/233) — Fikes E, 2017. Coverage of the work. The fellowship demonstrates that DSRP-based systems thinking was transferred into a USDA-supported national professional-development initiative and… - [Getting to the True Nature of Learning in K12](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/234) — Goral T, 2017. Coverage of the work in District Administration. - [Improving Public Service Delivery in Pakistan](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/235) — Javed M, 2017. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [Problems With Distinctions and Perspectives Impairing the Debate on Common Core](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/236) — Fiduccia P, 2017. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [RE:Thinking (documentary feature)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/238) — Hoard D, Ferro R, 2017. Feature documentary on DSRP work in seven public schools. - [Systems Thinking for Policymaking: The Case of Indigenous Women's Rights in Mexico](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/239) — Maymon P, 2017. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [The Flint Water Crisis: Using Systems Thinking to Understand Critical Failures](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/240) — Sokolow J, 2017. A student application of DSRP, from the Cornell Policy Review systems thinking special issues. - [The Global Search for Education: New Film Focuses on How to Get Thinking Back in Classrooms](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/241) — Rubin CM, 2017. Coverage of the work in CM Rubin World. The article independently documents DSRP being used in a public K–8 school as a metacognitive teaching framework and reports the… - ['Re' Documentary Challenges Educators](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/244) — SUNY Cortland News, 2018. Coverage of the work in SUNY Cortland News. - [‘Thinking About Thinking’: Soldiers Have a Better Way to Solve Problems](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/245) — Schwandt & Ryan, 2018. Two US Army majors report using DSRP and visual mapping to run a functional analysis and reorganize NATO's Resolute Support headquarters in Afghanistan mid-operation, an… - [Are They Prepared? A Review of the Documentary ReThinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/248) — Hayzler R, 2018. Coverage of the work in Blog. - [CIPA Launches e-Cornell Certificate Program: Systems Thinking Leadership](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/251) — Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, 2018. Coverage of the work in Press release. - [Systemic Semantics: A Systems Approach to Building Ontologies and Concept Maps](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/259) — Rousseau, David; Billingham, Julie; Calvo-Amodio, Javier, 2018. This is a citing use of DSRP by an independent group in systems philosophy, not a test of it. What makes it worth keeping is where the four operations end up. The author… - [Systems Thinking & Leadership Executive Certificate](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/262) — Cabrera & Cabrera, 2018. Cornell-credit online certificate teaching the framework. - [A systems thinking approach for eliciting mental models from visual boundary objects in hydropolitical contexts: a case study from the Pilcomayo River Basin](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/269) — Riveraine S. Walters; Erin S. Kenzie; Alexander E. Metzger; William Jesse Baltutis; Kakali B. Chakrabarti; Shana Lee Hirsch; Bethany K. Laursen, 2019. Strong supportive application and methodological extension. The authors combine conventional content/map analysis with DSRP specifically because traditional approaches e… - [An Online Case-Based Training Design Model to Develop Systems Thinking Ability](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/270) — Sudasna na Ayudhya, Anyarat, 2019. DSRP is in the intervention, not the bibliography – the Thai abstract names DSRP-rule questioning as a strategy component of the model itself. That makes this an instrum… - [Beyond Old Pipes and Ailing Budgets: Systems Thinking on Twenty-First Century Water Infrastructure in Chicago](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/272) — Erban LE, Walker HA, 2019. Article in Frontiers in Built Environment 5:124. - [Contribution of systems thinking and complex adaptive system attributes to sustainable food production: Example from a climate-smart village](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/274) — Jagustović et al., 2019. Applies DSRP as the core systems-thinking method to structure participatory sessions with women farmers analysing a climate-smart agriculture system in northern Ghana. - [Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/275) — Michael C. Jackson, 2019. Directly assesses Cabrera et al.’s proposal that four underlying rules—Distinctions, Systems, Relationships, and Perspectives—provide a common structural basis capable o… - [Systems Thinking (online course)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/276) — LinkedIn Learning, 2019. Dr. Cabrera's work on Systems Thinking was chosen by LinkedIn Learning. It is the #1 Course on LinkedIn Learning on Systems Thinking. Broad-audience course disseminating… - [Course Designed to Teach Leaders How to Think](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/284) — Schwandt J, Ryan T, 2020. Article in ARMY Magazine. - [Systems Thinking episode #4: DSRP](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/289) — Flemm, 2020. Teaches DSRP to Scrum Masters and agile coaches, mapping each pattern onto concrete team dysfunctions and framing DSRP as the missing tool for building useful causal loo… - [The Right of Suffrage of SHOSICs (Noncitizens) in the United States (pp. 17-20)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/292) — Castellanos Canales A, 2020. Article in JSD Dissertation, Cornell University. - [What Is Systems Thinking? Expert Perspectives From the WPI Systems Thinking Colloquium](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/293) — Amissah M, Gannon T, Monat J, Stroh DP, Kasser J, et al., 2020. A multi-author colloquium collecting expert perspectives on what systems thinking is, one contributor among many. Engagement with the field rather than a work of the lab. - [A teoria DSRP: um novo paradigma para o pensamento sistêmico](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/296) — Logullo, Ygor; Belderrain, Mischel Carmen Neyra, 2021. Our reading: useful because it is neither adoption nor dismissal. Two researchers at Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, with no Cabrera involvement, read the theory c… - [Cornell University Brooks School of Public Policy Adaptive Leadership (VMCL) Course](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/298) — Cornell University, 2021-2026. Cornell University Brooks School chose Cabrera's VMCL work for their Adaptive Leadership graduate level offering. The course demonstrates Cornell’s formal institutional… - [Cornell University Brooks School of Public Policy Systems Thinking Course](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/299) — Cornell University, 2021-2026. Brooks School chose Cabrera's work for their Systems Thinking graduate level offering - [Cornell University Business School Executive Education Course in Adaptive Leadership](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/300) — Cornell University, 2021-2026. Executive Education chose Cabrera's VMCL as the basis of their executive training in organizational design and adaptive leadership - [Cornell University Business School Executive Education Course in Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/301) — Cornell University, 2021-2026. Executive Education chose Cabrera's DSRP as the basis of their executive training in systems thinking - [Human-Centric Functional Modeling and the Unification of Systems Thinking Approaches: A Short Communication](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/303) — Williams AE, 2021. Proposes Human-Centric Functional Modeling, which grounds systems thinking in how people perceive, as a common frame for comparing systems thinking approaches. - [Sustaining planetary health through systems thinking: Public health's critical role](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/305) — Iyer et al., 2021. Adopts Cabrera & Cabrera's DSRP structure (distinctions, part-whole systems, causal relationships, perspectives) as the organizing vocabulary for how public health shoul… - [Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Illustrated by the Application to Soil Erosion and Food Security](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/307) — Jenkins B, 2021. Uses a framework of nested socio-ecological systems to analyze historical cases of soil erosion and what they meant for food security. - [The U.S. Military Academy and the Africa Military Education Program](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/309) — Morales R, Hughes DW, Krueger C, Newell D, Showman B, Brend J, 2021. Article in Military Review. - [Using DSRP in Health and Human Performance](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/310) — Schmidt, 2021. Applies all four patterns to strength and conditioning practice with original worked examples — trainer/client identity, the squat rack as a part-whole system, endurance… - [160. Laura and Derek Cabrera: Systems Thinking For Business](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/312) — Hastings, 2022. An independent host interviews the Cabreras and, in detailed show notes, re-frames each of the four patterns for an entrepreneurship and Austrian-economics audience. - [Circular Economy in Global Apparel Supply Chains: Restructuring the Fashion System Using Agent Based Approach (ABA)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/315) — Wilson O, 2022. Applies DSRP, POSIWID and complex adaptive systems analysis to the global apparel supply chain to find where it could shift from a linear to a circular model. - [Cornell University Response to COVID-19 Pandemic](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/317) — Rodriguez J, 2022. Maps how Cornell University responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on the economics of higher education. - [DSRP and Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/321) — Carney, 2022. A practitioner engineer summarises DSRP after taking Cabrera's LinkedIn Learning course, explains each of the four rules, and evaluates the method against his own mind-m… - [Gaps in Governmental Nutrition Support for the Malnourished Older Adult](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/326) — Sawyer L, 2022. Uses the Agent Based Approach to find gaps in government nutrition support for home-bound older adults, especially the role of mental health in eating habits. - [Interactive Workshop: Systems Thinking Made Simple (DSRP)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/328) — Chadsey, 2022. A third party teaches DSRP's four rules as a conference workshop, with breakout exercises applying them to business, social and personal problems. - [Issues With Development Projects in Nepal](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/330) — Bista I, 2022. Examines why Nepal's large "National Pride" development projects run into delays and fall short of expectations. - [Mapping the Prison Industrial Complex: A Case Study Using the Agent Based Approach (ABA)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/332) — Schinker R, 2022. Uses the Agent Based Approach to map the U.S. prison industrial complex, its five main agents, and the simple rules that produce its behavior. - [Serving Beginning and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers in the U.S.](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/340) — Braddy M, 2022. Uses the Agent Based Approach to find gaps that keep beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers from using USDA support programs. - [Systemic Analysis of Socioeconomic Determinants of Health in American Kids With a Behavioral Focus](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/344) — Carmona B, 2022. Maps how socioeconomic determinants of health, children's health behaviors and health outcomes relate to one another. - [The Military–Climate Change System: A Case Study Using the Agent Based Approach (ABA)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/347) — Bond J, 2022. Uses DSRP and the Agent Based Approach to map the relationship between the U.S. military and climate change as a complex adaptive system. - [The Missing Mismatch: A Case Study of Panama's Public Security Systems Issues Using the Agent-Based Approach (ABA)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/348) — Ortega Gonzalez A, 2022. Uses DSRP and the Agent Based Approach to analyze Panama's public security problems and recommend policy changes. - [Too Much Bureaucracy, Too Little Time](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/349) — Karnuta K, 2022. Uses the Agent Based Approach to show how the USDA's EQIP conservation program breeds competition and conflict that hold back sustainable farming. - [U.S. Air Force Career Field Management: At the Intersection of Futures Studies and Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/350) — Wiggins A, 2022. Combines futures-studies tools with the Agent Based Approach to recommend changes to how the U.S. Air Force manages its career fields. - [US Presidential Electoral Reform: An Agent Based Approach to the US Presidential Electoral System](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/352) — Sharfarz D, 2022. Uses the Agent Based Approach to model the U.S. presidential electoral system and suggest reforms that better match the public's intent. - [Warfighting: A Function of Combat Power](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/353) — Ryan, T., 2022. U.S. Army use of DSRP-based thinking. - [Addressing Complexity in the Pandemic Context: How Systems Thinking Can Facilitate Understanding of Design Aspects for Preventive Technologies](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/362) — Villius Zetterholm et al., 2023. Explicitly adopts the DSRP model as the study's operative framework for analysing pandemic preventive technology design — distinguishing pathogen/host/technology, modell… - [AMESH: An Ecosystems Approach to Managing for Sustainability and Health](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/364) — Waltner-Toews D, 2023. Describes AMESH, a method for sustainable development that combines complex systems theory, Soft Systems Methodology and community engagement, tested in Nepal, Kenya, Ca… - [Critical Systems Heuristics](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/368) — Gates E, Muñiz R, 2023. Introduces critical systems heuristics, a set of questions for deciding what a study or intervention includes and leaves out, with recent examples from Colombia and New… - [Critical Systems Thinking: An Evolving Systemic Approach](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/369) — Pinzon-Salcedo LA, 2023. Traces the development and main themes of critical systems thinking and describes one large real-world application. - [Culture-Building to Culture-Competing: How Opposing Mental Models Impact Organizational Change](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/370) — Bond J, 2023. Uses the culture-building graph to show what happens when two opposing shared mental models compete for the same undecided people. - [Delphi Method: A Democratic Dialectical, Consensus Seeking Open Systems Approach](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/371) — Sankaran S, Ang K, Hase S, 2023. Describes the Delphi method, in which experts answer rounds of anonymous questions until their answers converge, and its use in management research. - [Developing a tool for the assessment of systems thinking in K-12 settings](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/372) — Schilling and Grohs, 2023. Draws on Cabrera's DSRP as a domain-general account of systems thinking to design and pilot a new assessment instrument for K-12 learners. - [Dialogic Design Science: An Approach for Co-Creating Visionary Anticipations](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/375) — Kakoulaki M, Flanagan T, Christakis A, 2023. Presents Dialogic Design Science, a method for helping groups think and plan systemically, applied to 15 wine villages in Cyprus. - [Ecological Governance](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/377) — Jenkins B, 2023. Sets out nested adaptive systems as a way to govern development within ecological limits, applied to the Canterbury Water Management Strategy in New Zealand. - [Evolutionary Learning Laboratories: Diagnosing and Overcoming Complex or 'Wicked' Problems](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/380) — Nguyen N, Bosch O, Banson K, Nguyen T, 2023. Describes Evolutionary Learning Laboratories, a systems method for diagnosing and working through complex or "wicked" problems. - [Feminist-Systems Thinking: From Mere Principles to a United Nations Framework](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/381) — Stephens A, 2023. Reviews the feminist-systems thinking principles and how they grew into the GEMs framework (gender equality, environments, marginalized voices) used by the United Nation… - [Holistic Flexibility for Deploying Systems Thinking as a Cognitive Skill](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/385) — Rajneesh Chowdhury, 2023. Supportive scholarly engagement. Chowdhury explicitly cites Cabrera and Cabrera's argument that systems thinking need not be defined by methodologies but by cognitive op… - [Integrated Resource Planning: A Systems Approach to Utility Planning](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/388) — Turner A, Fane S, 2023. Introduces integrated resource planning, a systems approach that led utilities to manage demand as well as build supply. - [Interactive Planning](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/389) — Pourdehnad J, 2023. Explains Russell Ackoff's interactive planning, in which an organization's stakeholders design the future they want and work back to the present. - [Introduction to Soft Systems Methodology](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/390) — Hindle G, 2023. Introduces Soft Systems Methodology: its history, its nature as a learning cycle, and how it is used in practice. - [Map-Activate-Check: A Systems Thinking-Based Approach to Curriculum and Program Design](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/392) — Solin J, 2023. Describes Map-Activate-Check, a systems thinking method for designing curricula and programs that ties together cognition, learning and evaluation. - [Meta Rational Ways of Knowing](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/393) — Rajagopalan R, 2023. Argues that systems thinking is still bound to rational analysis and needs ways of knowing drawn from other cultures and from action research. - [Mixing Methods in Systems Practice](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/394) — Brocklesby J, 2023. Discusses the case for combining methods from different traditions in systems practice. - [PANDA (Participatory Appraisal of Needs and Development of Action): A Multi-Methodological Framework](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/396) — Taket A, White L, 2023. Describes PANDA, a framework that combines several methods for group decision-making in settings with many agencies. - [Press for the People: A Report and Analysis of a New Human Rights Organization for the Protection of Journalists](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/399) — Lu S, Blu U, 2023. Proposes a new organization to protect journalists, designed with the VMCL approach from the Cabreras' Flock Not Clock. - [Preventing the Current Trajectory of New York Mothers' Labor Market Outcomes: A Case Study Using the Agent Based Approach (ABA)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/400) — Morley J, 2023. Uses the Agent Based Approach to forecast how New York's paid family leave program will affect mothers' work, and recommends improvements. - [Promoting systems thinking through perspective taking when using an online modeling tool](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/401) — Jordan et al., 2023. Takes up Cabrera's claim that perspective-taking is a fundamental but underdeveloped component of systems thinking and builds a classroom modeling intervention to test i… - [Q&A With Derek Cabrera](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/402) — Trusted Magazine, 2023. Coverage of the work in Trusted Magazine. - [Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing (SAST)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/405) — Barabba V, Mitroff I, 2023. Describes Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing, a method for bringing the assumptions behind important decisions into the open and testing them. - [System Dynamics in Action](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/406) — Martinez-Moyano I, 2023. Explains the system dynamics approach, which studies how feedback between decisions and their consequences shapes change over time. - [Systemic Innovation](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/407) — Lindhult E, 2023. Surveys how the idea of systemic innovation is used across five fields. - [Systemic Thinking for Re-Generative Development](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/408) — Romm N, McIntyre-Mills J, 2023. Offers a way of systemic thinking tied to an ethic of inclusive wellbeing that extends the UN Sustainable Development Goals. - [Systems and Futures](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/409) — Hodgson A, 2023. Makes the case for bringing systems thinking and futures studies together. - [Systems Scribing: An Emerging Visual Practice](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/412) — Bird K, Riehl J, 2023. Describes systems scribing, which combines live visual note-taking with systems thinking. - [Systems Thinking and the Engineering Leader](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/413) — Schreiner J, Gibson H, Morales R, 2023. Examines the core skills of engineering leaders and where systems thinking fits among them. - [Systems Thinking for Project Management? Risky Not To](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/414) — Ackermann F, 2023. Argues that systems thinking can help projects avoid the cost and schedule overruns common around the world. - [Systems Thinking for Systems Engineers: A Foundational Skill](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/415) — Gibson H, Gillespie S, Evangelista P, Dabkowski M, 2023. Explores the origins and core skills of systems engineering and argues that systems thinking is foundational to it. - [Systems Thinking with Obeya](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/416) — Berg Wig, B., 2023. Practitioner book building on DSRP. - [The Autopoietic Character of Society](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/417) — Demetis D, 2023. Introduces social autopoiesis and Niklas Luhmann's theory of society as self-producing systems. - [The Dynamics of Trust: Path Dependence in Interpersonal Trust](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/419) — J. D. Caddell; Roshanak Nilchiani, 2023. Strong supportive application. The authors explicitly use DSRP to map artifacts from the interpersonal-trust literature, identify the essential components of the phenome… - [The Formal System Model: Understanding and Preventing Information Systems Project Failures](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/420) — Peters G, Fortune J, White D, 2023. Explains the Formal System Model, a systems tool for understanding and preventing failures in information systems projects. - [The Systemic Intervention Approach](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/425) — Midgley G, 2023. Presents Gerald Midgley's systemic intervention approach, which starts with boundary critique and then mixes methods to design improvements. - [The Vanguard Method: Beyond Command and Control](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/427) — Seddon J, O'Donovan B, 2023. Describes John Seddon's Vanguard Method for redesigning services as systems instead of through command and control. - [The Viable System Model: An Introduction to Theory and Practice](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/428) — Espinosa A, Walker J, Martinez-Lozada A, 2023. Introduces Stafford Beer's Viable System Model and how it is used to assess and redesign organizations. - [WSR: A Chinese Systems Approach](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/430) — Zhu Z, 2023. Describes the Chinese Wuli-Shili-Renli (WSR) approach, which weighs the technical, cognitive and social sides of management decisions. - [896: Integrating Emotions and Systems Thinking for Peak Productivity w/ Lori Fisher](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/431) — Lofermento, Brian; Fisher, Lori, 2024. DSRP explained accurately to a business audience with no prior systems-thinking exposure, by a practitioner independent of the Cabreras, with a timestamped transcript ra… - [A Qualitative Study of Assistant Principals' Experiences and On-the-Job Socialization: How Relationship Building, Role Clarity, and Communication Influence Their Career Mobility](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/433) — Calko, Sheila A., 2024. Our reading: DSRP sits in the interview protocol of a doctoral study rather than in its bibliography, which is a real if modest use – someone chose it as the reflective… - [A Systems Thinking Approach to Overcome Setbacks in African Socio-Economic Development](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/434) — Banson K, Nguyen NC, Kusi KA, Yeboah RM, Duah E, 2024. Takes a systems approach to identifying the factors that have set back Africa's economic development since independence. - [A Systems-Based Analysis of Human Violence](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/435) — MacGill V, 2024. Uses the author's Dynamics of Life model to analyze how violence arises at the biological, psychological and social levels. - [Cabrera Research: Systems Thinking and DSRP (course unit, 'Thinking Collegiately')](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/437) — Carney, 2024. A community-college critical-thinking course built around DSRP, curating primers and videos to teach the four patterns to undergraduates. - [How DSRP, A Systems Thinking Framework, Can Make Us Better at Sales](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/441) — Brontén, 2024. A sales-software practitioner adopts DSRP as a lens for B2B sales, applying distinctions, systems, relationships and perspectives to structure sales reasoning and opport… - [Introducing Systems Thinking as a Framework for Teaching and Assessing Threat Modeling Competency](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/442) — Joshi et al., 2024. This is direct independent effect evidence for DSRP because DSRP was not merely cited as background theory: it was explicitly taught, operationalized into a D/S/R/P rubr… - [Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Youth in the Education System: Applying the Agent Based Approach (ABA)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/443) — Blu U, 2024. Uses the Agent Based Approach to analyze the systems in schools that affect the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth. - [Multi-Agency Approach to Suicide Prevention: An Analysis of the Tompkins County Suicide Prevention Framework](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/444) — Mudangwe V, 2024. Analyzes the Tompkins County suicide prevention framework as a multi-agency system. - [Systems Thinking in Cybersecurity: Ending With the Beginning in Mind](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/450) — Collins M, 2024. Reviews the literature on systems thinking in cybersecurity and finds inconsistent definitions, narrow uses and little empirical evidence. - [The Systems Thinking Case for the Liberal Arts](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/451) — Donaldson W, Harter N, 2024. Argues for teaching the liberal arts through an interdisciplinary systems thinking approach. - [Thinking Holistically: The Implicit Use of DSRP and Systems Thinking Models](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/452) — Gibson, 2024. Applies the DSRP model (Cabrera & Cabrera 2018) as an analytic lens to map how a poverty-focused nonprofit in Malawi makes decisions, working each of the four rules thro… - [A conversation with Derek Cabrera about DSRP Ontology](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/456) — Mossé, 2025. Argues with DSRP's ontological claims, publishing a full email exchange with Derek Cabrera to lay out agreements and disagreements about what the theory establishes. - [Bridging Theory and Practice: Assessing Systems Thinking in Engineering Design Using the DSRP Framework](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/460) — Karabiyik et al., 2025. Uses DSRP as the coding taxonomy to characterise levels of systems thinking in engineering students working an energy-efficient house design challenge. - [Can Green Building Science Support Systems Thinking for Energy Education?](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/461) — Laura B. Cole; Jessica Justice; Delaney O’Brien; Jayedi Aman; Jong Bum Kim; Aysegul Akturk; Laura Zangori, 2025. Supportive independent empirical correspondence. The paper introduces DSRP as a synthesis of systems-thinking competencies, but the empirical coding itself was grounded… - [Comparison of Twelve Systems Theories Using a Systemic Framework](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/463) — Rasmussen, 2025. Places DSRP alongside eleven other contemporary systems theories and analyses its worldview, scope and process structure against a common comparative framework. - [Derek Cabrera's Systems Thinking Made Simple: A Four-Step Framework for Structuring Any Workflow](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/466) — Kanban Zone Blog, 2025. Explains and applies DSRP as a practical four-step method for structuring work and Kanban-style workflows, teaching each pattern to a practitioner audience. - [Integrating DSRP](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/476) — van Dongen, 2025. Van Dongen proposes integrating DSRP continuously into existing courses so students repeatedly organise textbook, lecture, and classroom information through distinctions… - [Investigating How a Technology-Enhanced, Systems Thinking-Oriented Engineering Course Influences Students’ Attitudes Towards Design and Technology](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/477) — Brina Kurent; Stanislav Avsec, 2025. Students in the experimental group perceived technology and engineering as significantly less difficult than the control group. The systems-thinking condition significan… - [On teaching relationships](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/479) — van Dongen, 2025. Van Dongen extends and pedagogically interprets the DSRP Relationship pattern by distinguishing contingent, existential, social/legal, hierarchical, grouping, comparativ… - [S.2 Systems thinking patterns](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/482) — Brandsberg-Engelmann et al., 2025. This textbook module explicitly teaches DSRP as the four core patterns of systems thinking and provides exercises for applying all four patterns to objects, economic ins… - [S.3 Systems diagrams and models](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/483) — Brandsberg-Engelmann et al., 2025. This curriculum section applies DSRP to brainstorming, outlining, mind-mapping, graphs, tables, and systems diagrams to show how information can be structured and modell… - [Sistemsko razmišljanje vzgojiteljev in strokovnih delavcev v vrtcu](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/484) — Lunder, Lana, 2025. This operationalizes DSRP as a measurement instrument rather than citing it, and it produces differentiated results per Pattern, which is what makes it worth a row. The… - [Structured Thinking Structures Sales Opportunities That Win](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/486) — Brontén, 2025. Applies DSRP to B2B sales practice, translating the four patterns into 'mental moves' for mapping stakeholders and co-creating shared mental models. - [Systems of Provisioning and the Doughnut](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/488) — van Dongen, 2025. Van Dongen connects DSRP to Doughnut Economics and systems-of-provisioning analysis, arguing that the four-pattern framework helps learners define problems, examine syst… - [Systems of Provisioning: Evaluating the System](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/489) — van Dongen, 2025. Van Dongen uses a DSRP-informed method to structure how secondary-school students analyse and evaluate systems of provisioning through multiple social, ecological, and e… - [Systems Thinking for Cybersecurity: A Reality Based Approach](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/490) — Collins M, 2025. Argues that cybersecurity needs a systems thinking approach that teaches how to think, not only technical skills. - [Systems Thinking for In-Depth Insect Pest Identification in Vegetable Farming through Collaborative Diversity Initiatives with Farmers](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/491) — Adusei et al., 2025. Uses DSRP, paired with backward design, as the theoretical scaffold for an extension training programme teaching Sub-Saharan African vegetable farmers to identify insect… - [Systems thinking for sustainability: shifting to a higher level of systems consciousness](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/492) — Weaver et al., 2025. Situates DSRP's four universal rules and skills within a comparative synthesis of systems thinking approaches for advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals. - [Teaching Distinctions](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/493) — van Dongen, 2025. Van Dongen develops a classroom approach for teaching the DSRP Distinction pattern, including identity/other reasoning, comparison, mental-model revision, and examples f… - [Teaching the Systems Rule](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/494) — van Dongen, 2025. Van Dongen translates the DSRP Systems pattern into teaching practice through the part-whole rule and the associated zoom-in and zoom-out moves. - [The Benefits, Universality and Boundaries of DSRP Theory (3-part series)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/495) — Mossé, 2025. Endorses DSRP as a practical thinking discipline in Part 1, reconstructs the universality argument in Part 2, then argues in Part 3 for six boundaries on the structural-… - [The Benefits, Universality and Boundaries of DSRP Theory: Part 1 of 3](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/496) — Mossé, 2025. A practitioner who completed the Cabreras' course analyses DSRP's claims, focusing on the empirical asymmetry between how heavily people rely on distinctions versus how… - [The Benefits, Universality and Boundaries of DSRP Theory: Part 3 of 3](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/497) — Mossé, 2025. Steel-mans DSRP's structural-ontology claim and then argues its limits, mapping six boundaries where the framework hands off to domain theory, frame choice, and empirica… - [The Co-Everything Move: Notice of Discovery for a New Cognitive Move in Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/498) — Silberman D, 2025. Announces the Co-Everything Move, a new cognitive Move that sets out the structure behind all "co-" processes such as communication and cooperation. - [The Part-Pano Move: Announcement of Discovery for a New Cognitive Move in Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/501) — Brown K, 2025. Announces the Part-Pano Move, a new cognitive Move that places one whole as a part in several systems side by side. - [The RD Starburst Move: Notice of Discovery for a New Cognitive Move in Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/502) — Coffman HK, 2025. Announces the RD Starburst Move, a new cognitive Move that extends the RD Barbell by radiating one relationship out to several pairs of identities. - [The WickedVUCA Typology: A Problem-Agnostic Framework for Adaptive Problem-Solving in Complex, Dynamic Environments](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/508) — Colman D, 2025. Presents the WickedVUCA Typology, a framework that sorts problems by complexity, conflict and stakeholder agreement to guide how to address them. - [Thinking Beyond the Tech: Why Systems Thinking Matters (podcast)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/509) — Vital Learning Edge, 2025. A podcast episode and workshop that uses DSRP as its foundation for teaching systems thinking to a learning-and-development audience. - [Understanding First, Solutions Second: A Systems Thinking Analysis of the Proposed Australian Cybersecurity Professionalization Scheme](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/510) — Collins M, 2025. Uses DSRP and the Agent Based Approach to evaluate Australia's proposed cybersecurity professionalization scheme. - [Universality and the Limits of DSRP Theory (three-part series) and A Conversation with Derek Cabrera about DSRP Ontology](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/511) — Mossé, 2025. Argues critically that DSRP functions as a universal grammar of description rather than an ontology, pressing on whether it rules out possible world-structures, yields n… - [Utilizing Systems Thinking Approach to Enhance Veteran Outreach and Physician Wellness for the Development of an AI Assisting Tool](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/512) — Branson Owens, Kayla Sin, Dylan D’Agostino, Reginal Sarsah, Joseph DeMartino, and Dr. Ahmed Bahabry, 2025. Uses DSRP as the organizing methodology for analyzing AI-assisted physician decision-making within the pharmaceutical and military healthcare system. - [What Keeps the Working Poor Poor? A Systems Analysis of Working Poverty in the United States](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/513) — Bari A, Kamran J, Jani M, Singh T, Al-Adsani C, 2025. Uses a DSRP-guided systems literature review of 130 articles to examine why working people in the U.S. stay poor. - [Advancing Systems Thinking Education through Interactive Digital Narrative Design](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/526) — Breanne Pitt, 2026. Strongly supportive independent empirical application. DSRP is used as both a learning scaffold and an assessment framework. The thesis operationalizes all four DSRP pat… - [Being Certain in Systems Thinking: DSRP — A Critical Appraisal of Cabrera's 'DSRP as Universal Ontology' (Discussion Draft)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/534) — James Paterson, 2026. Responses to Paterson's criticisms: 1. “DSRP can redescribe anything.” Unsupported. DSRP-484 is a finite, constrained calculus—not four vague categories. It specifies Pa… - [Designing for Ideological Flexibility: Tracking Perspective Shifts in an Educational IDN](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/550) — Pitt et al., 2026. Uses DSRP — listed as an author keyword — to design and instrument an interactive digital narrative that measures secondary learners' perspective-taking. - [DSRP posts (Teaching Distinctions; On teaching relationships; and related curriculum pieces)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/553) — van Dongen, 2026. Teaches DSRP as a working part of a secondary-school economics curriculum, with per-pattern pedagogical guidance on how each is introduced and practised. - [Frameworks and Systems Thinking. How the S-to-P Jig Works.](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/567) — Prill, 2026. Extends one specific DSRP move — system-to-perspective, attributed to Derek and Laura Cabrera — into an account of what agile frameworks actually do to a team. - [La moda devorándose a sí misma](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/596) — Hernández, 2026. Spanish-language opinion column that uses Derek and Laura Cabrera's systems thinking research as its framing device: 'los doctores Derek y Laura Cabrera, de Cornell, afi… - [Looking Beyond Traditional Tools: Systems Thinking for Adaptive Decision-Making and Complex Problem Solving in the Nepali Army](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/601) — Subba, Dil Bikram, 2026. This is doctrinal adoption by a serving officer, not a test. What lifts it above a citation is that DSRP gets its own framework section and figure with all four Patterns… - [Operationalizing Systems Thinking Standards Across K–8 Public Education: A District-Wide Implementation Study of DSRP Cognitive Moves](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/614) — A District-Wide Implementation Study of DSRP Cognitive Moves — Nittolo, John, 2026. Our reading: this is adoption evidence, not convergence evidence. Its value on the engagement track is that it is an outside district reporting what happened in its own… - [Seeing the System, Positioning the Self: Engineering Students' Conceptualizations of Wicked Problems](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/635) — Tiantian Li; Hector E. Rodriguez-Simmonds, 2026. Two independent researchers adopt DSRP as their working definition of systems thinking, not as a passing citation. They build a coding table that operationalizes all fou… - [Stories and systems: educational interactive storytelling to foster media literacy and systemic thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/642) — Roth et al., 2026. Builds DSRP into the CLASS framework, a transdisciplinary model combining systems thinking, design thinking and storytelling for teaching media literacy. - [Structured External Representations: Object-Oriented Thinking (OOT) Beyond Its Own Literature. A Systematic Literature Review](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/645) — Coffman, Heather, 2026. Our reading: this is the corpus, not the test. Its bearing on DSRP is that it was assembled outside DSRP and OOT vocabulary, which is what makes it usable as an independ… - [Systems Failure in Education Policy: Examining Organizational Capacity Constraints in Texas HB 4545 Implementation](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/651) — Null, B. S., 2026. An external doctoral dissertation using Cabrera & Cabrera's DSRP model as its theoretical framework to diagnose how organizational-capacity differences shaped two Texas… - [Systems Thinking and Satire](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/652) — Kossack, 2026. Applies Cabrera's DSRP theory by name as the analytic lens for understanding satire as a cognitive phenomenon that restructures an audience's mental models. - [Systems Thinking in Higher Education: A Conceptual Model of the Micro-Credentials Ecosystem](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/653) — Çakar Özkan, Esra; Kiymik, Gülşah, 2026. DSRP appears in Section 3.6 surveying frameworks in systems thinking education, where the authors write that "Cabrera, Colosi, and Lobdell define systems thinking throug… - [Systems Thinking in the Role of Fostering Technological and Engineering Literacy](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/654) — Avsec, Stanislav, 2026. Applies DSRP theory as the organising framework for an ICT-supported systems thinking intervention with pre-service preschool teachers, explicitly mapping established sy… - [Teaching for Thinking and Reflection with DSRP](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/655) — van Dongen, 2026. Builds DSRP into a secondary and college economics curriculum as the pedagogical spine, with a companion series of posts on teaching each individual rule. - [The Asymptotic Boundary of O-Theory](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/657) — Why 1/1 ≠ 1 — Klein M, 2026. Klein argues that a model may never be fully identical to the reality it models, because the fraction 1/1 is not the same thing as the integer 1. The limit sits at the e… - [The Stoic Systems Thinker](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/667) — Lukich, M., 2026. A trade book pairing Stoic philosophy with systems thinking for a general audience; its Chapter 2, "The Grammar of Complexity," builds directly on DSRP as the foundation… - [Why We Stay Stuck: A Complex Conceptual Systems Theory for Wicked Problems](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/679) — Donaldson, 2026. Directly positions CCST relative to DSRP. Donaldson accepts DSRP as a universal cognitive formalism/general grammar for systems thinking, but distinguishes CCST as a com… - [Regenerative Economics Textbook, Section S.2: Systems Thinking Patterns](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/683) — Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann, 2026. A section of an open-access secondary-school economics textbook that teaches DSRP as the foundational framework for systems thinking, crediting Cabrera and working each… - [Why DSRP](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/684) — Henny, 2026. Part of an ongoing series of teaching essays that build economics instruction around DSRP; this entry makes the case for learning the four patterns and addresses what su… - [Socio-Technical Systems Thinking](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/690) — Appraisal and Prospects — Selsky, John W.; Babüroğlu, Oğuz N., 2023. An appraisal of socio-technical systems thinking seventy years after the Tavistock coal-mine studies, arguing the tradition must extend from the workplace to ecosystems… - [Why more effort won't fix your team (Episode 452)](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/692) — Michael Lukich (guest), Rob Alvarez (host), 2026. Lukich teaches DSRP to a management and learning-design audience, walking through each of the four patterns and framing them as the building blocks for mapping any organ… - [The Benefits, Universality and Boundaries of DSRP Theory](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/698) — Mossé, Benjamin, 2025. An independent cybersecurity researcher who completed a six-week DSRP course sets out, across three essays, what he takes DSRP to deliver and where he thinks its claims… - [Regenerative Economics (open-access textbook), Section S.2: Systems thinking patterns](https://dsrpevidence.org/study/699) — Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann, 2025. A free secondary-school economics textbook teaches all four DSRP patterns as its systems thinking unit, defining identity-and-other, part-whole nesting, labeled relation…