BCBA Supervision & Management Practice Questions
Personnel Supervision and Management covers how BCBAs train and support staff and supervisees: behavioral skills training, performance diagnostics, feedback, and evaluating whether supervision is working.
What Domain I covers
The 6th Edition Test Content Outline lists 7 tasks in this domain. Baseline has practice questions mapped to every one of them.
- I.1Benefits of behavior-analytic supervision
- I.2Building effective supervisory relationships
- I.3Equity in supervision
- I.4Selecting supervision goals
- I.5Performance management procedures
- I.6Function-based approach to supervisee performance
- I.7Data-based decisions about supervision
What to master
- Behavioral skills training: instructions, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback to a mastery criterion.
- Performance diagnostics such as the PDC-HS, and matching the intervention to the cause.
- Effective feedback, task clarification, self-monitoring, and reinforcement for staff.
- Equity and cultural responsiveness in supervision, and data-based evaluation of supervision.
Common traps
- Jumping to consequences when the problem is an antecedent issue like unclear expectations or missing resources.
- Treating a supervisee's "I understand" as evidence of competence.
- Giving vague or delayed feedback.
Free Supervision & Management practice questions
Try these original questions written to match the format of the BCBA exam.
1. Which sequence describes behavioral skills training (BST) for teaching a supervisee to implement a new procedure?
- Rehearsal, instruction, feedback, modeling
- Feedback, instruction, rehearsal, modeling
- Modeling, feedback, instruction, rehearsal
- Instruction, modeling, rehearsal, feedback
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. Instruction, modeling, rehearsal, feedback
BST consists of instructions (describe the skill), modeling (demonstrate it), rehearsal (the trainee practices), and feedback (on performance), repeated until the trainee meets a mastery criterion.
2. Several staff members are not implementing a client's treatment plan correctly. Before choosing a training intervention, the BCBA wants to determine whether the problem is related to training, resources, task clarity or consequences. Which tool fits best?
- The Functional Analysis Screening Tool (FAST)
- A structured interview with the client's family
- A multiple-baseline design across the staff
- The Performance Diagnostic Checklist – Human Services
Show answer and explanation
Answer: D. The Performance Diagnostic Checklist – Human Services
The PDC-HS identifies the variables responsible for poor staff performance — training, task clarification and prompting, resources and processes, or performance consequences — so the intervention matches the cause. The FAST assesses the function of a client's problem behavior, not staff performance.
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