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Oklahoma Licensed Behavior Analyst (OLBA)

State license for a BACB-certified behavior analyst.

Licensing authority: Oklahoma Licensed Behavior Analyst Board (OLBAB), Oklahoma Human Services Developmental Disabilities Services · Application information

Initial licensure based on BACB certification
BCBA Certification Examination
Age
At least 21 years old under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(2).
Application
Submit signed Form 06LC001E, a current copy of national certification and the applicable fee to DHS under OLBAB application instructions.
Authority transition
On the evaluation date, OLBAB operates under DHS DDS. Official notices transfer oversight to OSBEP effective November 1, 2026 and state that existing requirements continue meanwhile.
Continuing practice
Maintain active national certification and BACB certification or recertification requirements and follow BACB ethical and professional standards under OAC 340:100-18-1(e).
Degree
The minimum graduate or undergraduate degree appropriate to the BACB certification level, from an accredited institution in a qualifying field determined by BACB, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(5).
Disciplinary history
No specified professional license or certification refusal, revocation, suspension, restriction or pending unprofessional-conduct matter, unless DDS finds correction or mitigating circumstances, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(4) and OAC 340:100-18-1(c)(1)(B).
Moral character
Good moral character is required by 59 O.S. 1928(B)(1).
National certification
Current BACB certification at the applicable level is required. The examination leaf records the qualifying examination already passed.
Licensure for applicants holding another state license or certificate
BCBA Certification Examination
Age
At least 21 years old under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(2).
Application
Submit signed Form 06LC001E, a current copy of national certification and the applicable fee to DHS under OLBAB application instructions.
Authority transition
On the evaluation date, OLBAB operates under DHS DDS. Official notices transfer oversight to OSBEP effective November 1, 2026 and state that existing requirements continue meanwhile.
Continuing practice
Maintain active national certification and BACB certification or recertification requirements and follow BACB ethical and professional standards under OAC 340:100-18-1(e).
Degree
The minimum graduate or undergraduate degree appropriate to the BACB certification level, from an accredited institution in a qualifying field determined by BACB, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(5).
Disciplinary history
No specified professional license or certification refusal, revocation, suspension, restriction or pending unprofessional-conduct matter, unless DDS finds correction or mitigating circumstances, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(4) and OAC 340:100-18-1(c)(1)(B).
Moral character
Good moral character is required by 59 O.S. 1928(B)(1).
National certification
Current BACB certification at the applicable level is required. The examination leaf records the qualifying examination already passed.
Other state credential
OLBAB may issue a license to an applicant holding a valid license or certificate from another state who meets 59 O.S. 1928(B), this rule and additional OLBAB administrative licensing requirements and has no imposed or pending disciplinary actions.
Expedited post military initial issuance
BCBA Certification Examination
Age
At least 21 years old under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(2).
Application
Submit signed Form 06LC001E, a current copy of national certification and the applicable fee to DHS under OLBAB application instructions.
Authority transition
On the evaluation date, OLBAB operates under DHS DDS. Official notices transfer oversight to OSBEP effective November 1, 2026 and state that existing requirements continue meanwhile.
Continuing practice
Maintain active national certification and BACB certification or recertification requirements and follow BACB ethical and professional standards under OAC 340:100-18-1(e).
Degree
The minimum graduate or undergraduate degree appropriate to the BACB certification level, from an accredited institution in a qualifying field determined by BACB, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(5).
Disciplinary history
No specified professional license or certification refusal, revocation, suspension, restriction or pending unprofessional-conduct matter, unless DDS finds correction or mitigating circumstances, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(4) and OAC 340:100-18-1(c)(1)(B).
Military applicant
Post-military service members and spouses receive expedited issuance upon required application materials and BACB certification verification under OAC 340:100-18-1(d)(3). 59 O.S. 4100.1 describes honorably discharged service members and spouses accompanying active-duty service members transferred to Oklahoma.
Moral character
Good moral character is required by 59 O.S. 1928(B)(1).
National certification
Current BACB certification at the applicable level is required. The examination leaf records the qualifying examination already passed.
License renewal
BCBA Certification Examination
Age
At least 21 years old under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(2).
Application
Submit signed Form 06LC001E, a current copy of national certification and the applicable fee to DHS under OLBAB application instructions.
Authority transition
On the evaluation date, OLBAB operates under DHS DDS. Official notices transfer oversight to OSBEP effective November 1, 2026 and state that existing requirements continue meanwhile.
Continuing practice
Maintain active national certification and BACB certification or recertification requirements and follow BACB ethical and professional standards under OAC 340:100-18-1(e).
Degree
The minimum graduate or undergraduate degree appropriate to the BACB certification level, from an accredited institution in a qualifying field determined by BACB, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(5).
Disciplinary history
No specified professional license or certification refusal, revocation, suspension, restriction or pending unprofessional-conduct matter, unless DDS finds correction or mitigating circumstances, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(4) and OAC 340:100-18-1(c)(1)(B).
Existing credential
Hold the state license or certificate being renewed.
Moral character
Good moral character is required by 59 O.S. 1928(B)(1).
National certification
Current BACB certification at the applicable level is required. The examination leaf records the qualifying examination already passed.
Renewal deadline
Apply for renewal on or before April 30 of each odd-numbered year.
Renewal materials
Provide a current copy of BACB certification and Form 06LC001E. The examination leaf records the qualifying pass already obtained; current certification is the renewal evidence.
State term
State licenses and certificates are issued for two-year terms following the initial OLBAB certification period.
Temporary licensure for an analyst licensed elsewhere
BCBA Certification Examination
Age
At least 21 years old under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(2).
Application
Submit signed Form 06LC001E, a current copy of national certification and the applicable fee to DHS under OLBAB application instructions.
Authority transition
On the evaluation date, OLBAB operates under DHS DDS. Official notices transfer oversight to OSBEP effective November 1, 2026 and state that existing requirements continue meanwhile.
Continuing practice
Maintain active national certification and BACB certification or recertification requirements and follow BACB ethical and professional standards under OAC 340:100-18-1(e).
Degree
The minimum graduate or undergraduate degree appropriate to the BACB certification level, from an accredited institution in a qualifying field determined by BACB, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(5).
Disciplinary history
No specified professional license or certification refusal, revocation, suspension, restriction or pending unprofessional-conduct matter, unless DDS finds correction or mitigating circumstances, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(4) and OAC 340:100-18-1(c)(1)(B).
Moral character
Good moral character is required by 59 O.S. 1928(B)(1).
National certification
Current BACB certification at the applicable level is required. The examination leaf records the qualifying examination already passed.
Other state license
Must be licensed to practice behavior analysis in another state with requirements substantially equivalent to Oklahoma under 59 O.S. 1928(B) and this rule.
Temporary term
OLBAB may issue a temporary license for 30 calendar days or less in a calendar year.

Oklahoma Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (OCABA)

State certification for a BACB-certified assistant behavior analyst practicing under an Oklahoma licensed behavior analyst. RBTs work under an analyst license as described in OAC 340:100-18-1(b)(9).

Licensing authority: Oklahoma Licensed Behavior Analyst Board (OLBAB), Oklahoma Human Services Developmental Disabilities Services · Application information

Initial state certification based on BACB certification
BCaBA Certification Examination
Age
At least 21 years old under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(2).
Application
Submit signed Form 06LC001E, a current copy of national certification and the applicable fee to DHS under OLBAB application instructions.
Authority transition
On the evaluation date, OLBAB operates under DHS DDS. Official notices transfer oversight to OSBEP effective November 1, 2026 and state that existing requirements continue meanwhile.
Continuing practice
Maintain active national certification and BACB certification or recertification requirements and follow BACB ethical and professional standards under OAC 340:100-18-1(e).
Degree
The minimum graduate or undergraduate degree appropriate to the BACB certification level, from an accredited institution in a qualifying field determined by BACB, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(5).
Disciplinary history
No specified professional license or certification refusal, revocation, suspension, restriction or pending unprofessional-conduct matter, unless DDS finds correction or mitigating circumstances, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(4) and OAC 340:100-18-1(c)(1)(B).
Moral character
Good moral character is required by 59 O.S. 1928(B)(1).
National certification
Current BACB certification at the applicable level is required. The examination leaf records the qualifying examination already passed.
Supervision
An OCABA works under an OLBA following BACB supervision guidelines under OAC 340:100-18-1(g).
Expedited post military initial issuance
BCaBA Certification Examination
Age
At least 21 years old under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(2).
Application
Submit signed Form 06LC001E, a current copy of national certification and the applicable fee to DHS under OLBAB application instructions.
Authority transition
On the evaluation date, OLBAB operates under DHS DDS. Official notices transfer oversight to OSBEP effective November 1, 2026 and state that existing requirements continue meanwhile.
Continuing practice
Maintain active national certification and BACB certification or recertification requirements and follow BACB ethical and professional standards under OAC 340:100-18-1(e).
Degree
The minimum graduate or undergraduate degree appropriate to the BACB certification level, from an accredited institution in a qualifying field determined by BACB, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(5).
Disciplinary history
No specified professional license or certification refusal, revocation, suspension, restriction or pending unprofessional-conduct matter, unless DDS finds correction or mitigating circumstances, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(4) and OAC 340:100-18-1(c)(1)(B).
Military applicant
Post-military service members and spouses receive expedited issuance upon required application materials and BACB certification verification under OAC 340:100-18-1(d)(3). 59 O.S. 4100.1 describes honorably discharged service members and spouses accompanying active-duty service members transferred to Oklahoma.
Moral character
Good moral character is required by 59 O.S. 1928(B)(1).
National certification
Current BACB certification at the applicable level is required. The examination leaf records the qualifying examination already passed.
Supervision
An OCABA works under an OLBA following BACB supervision guidelines under OAC 340:100-18-1(g).
State recertification
BCaBA Certification Examination
Age
At least 21 years old under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(2).
Application
Submit signed Form 06LC001E, a current copy of national certification and the applicable fee to DHS under OLBAB application instructions.
Authority transition
On the evaluation date, OLBAB operates under DHS DDS. Official notices transfer oversight to OSBEP effective November 1, 2026 and state that existing requirements continue meanwhile.
Continuing practice
Maintain active national certification and BACB certification or recertification requirements and follow BACB ethical and professional standards under OAC 340:100-18-1(e).
Degree
The minimum graduate or undergraduate degree appropriate to the BACB certification level, from an accredited institution in a qualifying field determined by BACB, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(5).
Disciplinary history
No specified professional license or certification refusal, revocation, suspension, restriction or pending unprofessional-conduct matter, unless DDS finds correction or mitigating circumstances, under 59 O.S. 1928(B)(4) and OAC 340:100-18-1(c)(1)(B).
Existing credential
Hold the state license or certificate being renewed.
Moral character
Good moral character is required by 59 O.S. 1928(B)(1).
National certification
Current BACB certification at the applicable level is required. The examination leaf records the qualifying examination already passed.
Renewal deadline
Apply for renewal on or before April 30 of each odd-numbered year.
Renewal materials
Provide a current copy of BACB certification and Form 06LC001E. The examination leaf records the qualifying pass already obtained; current certification is the renewal evidence.
State term
State licenses and certificates are issued for two-year terms following the initial OLBAB certification period.
Supervision
An OCABA works under an OLBA following BACB supervision guidelines under OAC 340:100-18-1(g).

BCBA Certification Examination

Provider
Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB); delivered by Pearson VUE in person at authorized Pearson VUE testing sites
Format
Computer-based multiple-choice examination, continuously available and offered only in English; each question has 4 possible answers and only 1 correct answer; all questions are equally weighted and the result is based on overall performance
Exam questions
185 multiple-choice questions: 175 scored and 10 unscored
Time limit
4 hours
Passing score
Pass/fail; criterion-referenced passing score established by the modified Angoff method
Exam fee
$245 certification application (BACB) plus $125 examination appointment (Pearson VUE); $140 examination retake application
Examination outline
  • A. Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations (8 of 175 scored questions) (5%)
    • A.1. Identify the goals of behavior analysis as a science (i.e., description, prediction, control).
    • A.2. Explain the philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism, empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism).
    • A.3. Explain behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism.
    • A.4. Distinguish among behaviorism, the experimental analysis of behavior, applied behavior analysis, and professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis.
    • A.5. Identify and describe dimensions of applied behavior analysis.
  • B. Concepts and Principles (24 of 175 scored questions) (14%)
    • B.1. Identify and distinguish among behavior, response, and response class.
    • B.2. Identify and distinguish between stimulus and stimulus class.
    • B.3. Identify and distinguish between respondent and operant conditioning.
    • B.4. Identify and distinguish between positive and negative reinforcement contingencies.
    • B.5. Identify and distinguish between positive and negative punishment contingencies.
    • B.6. Identify and distinguish between automatic and socially mediated contingencies.
    • B.7. Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized reinforcers.
    • B.8. Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized punishers.
    • B.9. Identify and distinguish among simple schedules of reinforcement.
    • B.10. Identify and distinguish among concurrent, multiple, mixed, and chained schedules of reinforcement.
    • B.11. Identify and distinguish between operant and respondent extinction as operations and processes.
    • B.12. Identify examples of stimulus control.
    • B.13. Identify examples of stimulus discrimination.
    • B.14. Identify and distinguish between stimulus and response generalization.
    • B.15. Identify examples of response maintenance.
    • B.16. Identify examples of motivating operations.
    • B.17. Distinguish between motivating operations and stimulus control.
    • B.18. Identify and distinguish between rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior.
    • B.19. Identify and distinguish among verbal operants.
    • B.20. Identify the role of multiple control in verbal behavior.
    • B.21. Identify examples of processes that promote emergent relations and generative performance.
    • B.22. Identify ways behavioral momentum can be used to understand response persistence.
    • B.23. Identify ways the matching law can be used to interpret response allocation.
    • B.24. Identify and distinguish between imitation and observational learning.
  • C. Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation (21 of 175 scored questions) (12%)
    • C.1. Create operational definitions of behavior.
    • C.2. Distinguish among direct, indirect, and product measures of behavior.
    • C.3. Measure occurrence.
    • C.4. Measure temporal dimensions of behavior (e.g., duration, latency, interresponse time).
    • C.5. Distinguish between continuous and discontinuous measurement procedures.
    • C.6. Design and apply discontinuous measurement procedures (e.g., interval recording, time sampling).
    • C.7. Measure efficiency (e.g., trials to criterion, cost-benefit analysis, training duration).
    • C.8. Evaluate the validity and reliability of measurement procedures.
    • C.9. Select a measurement procedure to obtain representative data that accounts for the critical dimension of the behavior and environmental constraints.
    • C.10. Graph data to communicate relevant quantitative relations (e.g., equal-interval graphs, bar graphs, cumulative records).
    • C.11. Interpret graphed data.
    • C.12. Select a measurement procedure to obtain representative procedural integrity data that accounts for relevant dimensions (e.g., accuracy, dosage) and environmental constraints.
  • D. Experimental Design (13 of 175 scored questions) (7%)
    • D.1. Distinguish between dependent and independent variables.
    • D.2. Distinguish between internal and external validity.
    • D.3. Identify threats to internal validity (e.g., history, maturation).
    • D.4. Identify the defining features of single-case experimental designs (e.g., individuals serve as their own controls, repeated measures, prediction, verification, replication).
    • D.5. Identify the relative strengths of single-case experimental designs and group designs.
    • D.6. Critique and interpret data from single-case experimental designs.
    • D.7. Distinguish among reversal, multiple-baseline, multielement, and changing-criterion designs.
    • D.8. Identify rationales for conducting comparative, component, and parametric analyses.
    • D.9. Apply single-case experimental designs.
  • E. Ethical and Professional Issues (22 of 175 scored questions) (13%)
    • E.1. Identify and apply core principles underlying the ethics codes for BACB certificants (e.g., benefit others; treat others with compassion, dignity, and respect; behave with integrity).
    • E.2. Identify the risks to oneself, others, and the profession as a result of engaging in unethical behavior.
    • E.3. Develop and maintain competence by engaging in professional development activities (e.g., read literature, seek consultation, establish mentors).
    • E.4. Identify and comply with requirements for collecting, using, protecting, and disclosing confidential information.
    • E.5. Identify and comply with requirements for making public statements about professional activities (e.g., social media activity; misrepresentation of professional credentials, behavior analysis, and service outcomes).
    • E.6. Identify the conditions under which services or supervision should be discontinued and apply steps that should be taken when transitioning clients and supervisees to another professional.
    • E.7. Identify types of and risks associated with multiple relationships, and how to mitigate those risks when they are unavoidable.
    • E.8. Identify and apply interpersonal and other skills (e.g., accepting feedback, listening actively, seeking input, collaborating) to establish and maintain professional relationships.
    • E.9. Engage in cultural humility in service delivery and professional relationships.
    • E.10. Apply culturally responsive and inclusive service and supervision activities.
    • E.11. Identify personal biases and how they might interfere with professional activity.
    • E.12. Identify and apply the legal, regulatory, and practice requirements (e.g., licensure, jurisprudence, funding, certification) relevant to the delivery of behavior-analytic services.
  • F. Behavior Assessment (23 of 175 scored questions) (13%)
    • F.1. Identify relevant sources of information in records (e.g., educational, medical, historical) at the outset of the case.
    • F.2. Identify and integrate relevant cultural variables in the assessment process.
    • F.3. Design and evaluate assessments of relevant skill strengths and areas of need.
    • F.4. Design and evaluate preference assessments.
    • F.5. Design and evaluate descriptive assessments.
    • F.6. Design and evaluate functional analyses.
    • F.7. Interpret assessment data to determine the need for behavior-analytic services and/or referral to others.
    • F.8. Interpret assessment data to identify and prioritize socially significant, client-informed, and culturally responsive behavior-change procedures and goals.
  • G. Behavior-Change Procedures (25 of 175 scored questions) (14%)
    • G.1. Design and evaluate positive and negative reinforcement procedures.
    • G.2. Design and evaluate differential reinforcement (e.g., DRA, DRO, DRL, DRH) procedures with and without extinction.
    • G.3. Design and evaluate time-based reinforcement (e.g., fixed-time) schedules.
    • G.4. Identify procedures to establish and use conditioned reinforcers (e.g., token economies).
    • G.5. Incorporate motivating operations and discriminative stimuli into behavior-change procedures.
    • G.6. Design and evaluate procedures to produce simple and conditional discriminations.
    • G.7. Select and evaluate stimulus and response prompting procedures (e.g., errorless, most-to-least, least-to-most).
    • G.8. Design and implement procedures to fade stimulus and response prompts (e.g., prompt delay, stimulus fading).
    • G.9. Design and evaluate modeling procedures.
    • G.10. Design and evaluate instructions and rules.
    • G.11. Shape dimensions of behavior.
    • G.12. Select and implement chaining procedures.
    • G.13. Design and evaluate trial-based and free-operant procedures.
    • G.14. Design and evaluate group contingencies.
    • G.15. Design and evaluate procedures to promote stimulus and response generalization.
    • G.16. Design and evaluate procedures to maintain desired behavior change following intervention (e.g., schedule thinning, transferring to naturally occurring reinforcers).
    • G.17. Design and evaluate positive and negative punishment (e.g., time-out, response cost, overcorrection).
    • G.18. Evaluate emotional and elicited effects of behavior-change procedures.
    • G.19. Design and evaluate procedures to promote emergent relations and generative performance.
  • H. Selecting and Implementing Interventions (20 of 175 scored questions) (11%)
    • H.1. Develop intervention goals in observable and measurable terms.
    • H.2. Identify and recommend interventions based on assessment results, scientific evidence, client preferences, and contextual fit (e.g., expertise required for implementation, cultural variables, environmental resources).
    • H.3. Select socially valid alternative behavior to be established or increased when a target behavior is to be decreased.
    • H.4. Plan for and attempt to mitigate possible unwanted effects when using reinforcement, extinction, and punishment procedures.
    • H.5. Plan for and attempt to mitigate possible relapse of the target behavior.
    • H.6. Make data-based decisions about procedural integrity.
    • H.7. Make data-based decisions about the effectiveness of the intervention and the need for modification.
    • H.8. Collaborate with others to support and enhance client services.
  • I. Personnel Supervision and Management (19 of 175 scored questions) (11%)
    • I.1. Identify the benefits of using behavior-analytic supervision (e.g., improved client outcomes, improved staff performance and retention).
    • I.2. Identify and apply strategies for establishing effective supervisory relationships (e.g., executing supervisor-supervisee contracts, establishing clear expectations, giving and accepting feedback).
    • I.3. Identify and implement methods that promote equity in supervision practices.
    • I.4. Select supervision goals based on an assessment of the supervisee’s skills, cultural variables, and the environment.
    • I.5. Identify and apply empirically validated and culturally responsive performance management procedures (e.g., modeling, practice, feedback, reinforcement, task clarification, manipulation of response effort).
    • I.6. Apply a function-based approach (e.g., performance diagnostics) to assess and improve supervisee behavior.
    • I.7. Make data-based decisions about the efficacy of supervisory practices.
Examination sources

BCaBA Certification Examination

Provider
Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB); delivered by Pearson VUE in person at authorized Pearson VUE testing sites
Format
Computer-based multiple-choice examination, continuously available and offered only in English; each question has 4 possible answers and only 1 correct answer; all questions are equally weighted and the result is based on overall performance
Exam questions
175 multiple-choice questions: 150 scored and 25 unscored
Time limit
4 hours
Passing score
Pass/fail; criterion-referenced passing score established by the modified Angoff method
Exam fee
$175 certification application (BACB) plus $125 examination appointment (Pearson VUE)
Examination outline
  • A. Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations (10 of 150 scored questions) (7%)
    • A.1. Explain the goals of behavior analysis as a natural science (i.e., description, prediction, control).
    • A.2. Explain the philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism, empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism).
    • A.3. Describe and explain behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism.
    • A.4. Distinguish among behaviorism, the experimental analysis of behavior, applied behavior analysis, and professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis.
    • A.5. Identify and describe dimensions of applied behavior analysis (Baer, Wolf, & Risley, 1968).
  • B. Concepts and Principles (18 of 150 scored questions) (12%)
    • B.1. Identify and distinguish among behavior, response, and response class.
    • B.2. Identify and distinguish between stimulus and stimulus class.
    • B.3. Identify and distinguish between respondent and operant conditioning.
    • B.4. Identify and distinguish between positive and negative reinforcement contingencies.
    • B.5. Identify and distinguish between positive and negative punishment contingencies.
    • B.6. Identify and distinguish between automatic and socially mediated contingencies.
    • B.7. Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized reinforcers and punishers.
    • B.8. Identify and distinguish among simple schedules of reinforcement.
    • B.9. Identify examples of operant extinction.
    • B.10. Identify and distinguish between types of stimulus control.
    • B.11. Identify and distinguish between discrimination and generalization.
    • B.12. Define and identify examples of unconditioned motivating operations.
    • B.13. Identify and distinguish between rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior.
    • B.14. Identify and distinguish among elementary verbal operants.
    • B.15. Define and identify examples of processes that promote emergent relations and generative performance.
  • C. Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation (20 of 150 scored questions) (13%)
    • C.1. Define and identify dimensions of behavior (e.g., count, duration, magnitude).
    • C.2. Describe the form (i.e., topography) and develop operational definitions of behavior.
    • C.3. Distinguish among direct, indirect, and product measures of behavior.
    • C.4. Develop and implement continuous measurement procedures (e.g., duration recording, event recording).
    • C.5. Develop and implement discontinuous measurement procedures (e.g., interval recording, time sampling).
    • C.6. Evaluate the validity and reliability of measurement procedures.
    • C.7. Select a measurement system to obtain representative data given the dimensions of behavior and the logistics of observing and recording.
    • C.8. Graph data to communicate relevant quantitative relations (e.g., equal-interval graphs, bar graphs, cumulative records).
    • C.9. Interpret graphed data.
    • C.10. Develop and evaluate mastery criteria.
  • D. Experimental Design (10 of 150 scored questions) (7%)
    • D.1. Distinguish between dependent and independent variables.
    • D.2. Distinguish between internal and external validity.
    • D.3. Identify the defining features of single-case experimental designs (e.g., individuals serve as their own controls, repeated measures, prediction, verification, replication).
    • D.4. Identify strengths of single-case experimental design.
    • D.5. Distinguish among and implement single-case experimental designs (e.g., reversal, multiple baseline, multielement, changing criterion).
    • D.6. Distinguish among and implement comparative, component, and parametric analyses.
  • E. Ethical and Professional Issues (18 of 150 scored questions) (12%)
    • E.1. Identify and apply core principles underlying the ethics codes for BACB certificants (e.g., benefit others; treat others with compassion, dignity, and respect; behave with integrity).
    • E.2. Identify the risks to oneself, others, and the profession associated with engaging in unethical behavior (e.g., misuse of social media, misrepresentation of one’s credential, making confidential information public).
    • E.3. Identify one’s area(s) of competence and when to seek a supervisor’s guidance.
    • E.4. Identify professional development activities that strengthen and expand areas of competence (e.g., attend conferences, read literature, seek consultation, establish mentors).
    • E.5. Identify and comply with requirements for collecting, using, protecting, and disclosing confidential information.
    • E.6. Identify steps that should be taken when transitioning clients or supervisees to another professional or when a BCaBA transitions to a different supervisor.
    • E.7. Identify types of and risks associated with multiple relationships, and how to mitigate those risks when they are unavoidable.
    • E.8. Identify and apply interpersonal and other skills (e.g., accepting feedback, listening actively, seeking input, collaborating) to establish and maintain professional relationships.
    • E.9. Engage in cultural humility in service delivery and professional relationships.
    • E.10. Apply culturally responsive and inclusive service and supervision activities.
    • E.11. Identify and apply the legal, regulatory, and practice requirements (e.g., licensure, jurisprudence, funding, certification) relevant to the delivery of behavior-analytic services.
  • F. Behavior Assessment (17 of 150 scored questions) (11%)
    • F.1. Review relevant information in available records and data (e.g., educational, medical, historical) at the outset of a case.
    • F.2. Identify conditions that warrant behavior-analytic services.
    • F.3. Identify and prioritize socially significant, client-informed, and culturally responsive behavior-change goals.
    • F.4. Implement assessments of relevant skill strengths and deficits, and contextual fit (e.g., client values, cultural variables, social validity, environmental resources).
    • F.5. Implement preference and reinforcer assessments.
    • F.6. Implement functional assessments of behavior, including indirect, descriptive, and experimental analyses.
  • G. Behavior-Change Procedures (22 of 150 scored questions) (15%)
    • G.1. Develop and implement positive and negative reinforcement procedures, including contingent and noncontingent applications.
    • G.2. Develop and implement procedures to establish and use conditioned reinforcers.
    • G.3. Develop and implement procedures that incorporate motivating operations and discriminative stimuli.
    • G.4. Develop and implement procedures to teach simple and conditional discriminations.
    • G.5. Develop and implement procedures using stimulus and response prompts that include appropriate fading procedures (e.g., errorless, least-to-most, stimulus fading).
    • G.6. Develop and implement modeling procedures.
    • G.7. Develop and implement procedures that use instructions and rules.
    • G.8. Develop and implement shaping procedures.
    • G.9. Develop and implement chaining procedures.
    • G.10. Develop and implement procedures to teach elementary verbal operants.
    • G.11. Develop and implement procedures to promote emergent relations and generative performance.
    • G.12. Develop and implement procedures that promote behavioral persistence.
    • G.13. Develop and implement acquisition procedures that are appropriate to the client’s skills and intervention goals (e.g., discrete-trial, free-operant, and naturalistic teaching arrangements).
    • G.14. Develop and implement group contingency procedures.
    • G.15. Develop and implement contingency contracting procedures.
    • G.16. Develop and implement self-management procedures.
    • G.17. Develop and implement procedures to promote stimulus and response generalization.
    • G.18. Develop and implement differential reinforcement procedures with and without extinction.
    • G.19. Define and implement positive and negative punishment procedures (e.g., time-out, response cost, overcorrection).
    • G.20. Develop and implement procedures to promote maintenance of behavior change.
  • H. Intervention Development and Monitoring (20 of 150 scored questions) (13%)
    • H.1. State intervention goals in observable and measurable terms.
    • H.2. Identify potential interventions based on assessment results and scientific evidence.
    • H.3. Develop intervention goals and procedures based on risks and contextual fit (e.g., client preferences and values, cultural variables, social validity, environmental resources).
    • H.4. Identify alternative behaviors to be established or increased when a target behavior is to be decreased.
    • H.5. Identify possible unwanted effects when using reinforcement, extinction, and punishment procedures.
    • H.6. Evaluate client progress and procedural integrity.
    • H.7. Make data-based decisions about the effectiveness of procedures and the need for modification.
    • H.8. Collaborate with and include others who support and/or provide services to clients.
  • I. Supervisory Relationships (15 of 150 scored questions) (10%)
    • I.1. Use behavior-analytic supervision practices and state the potential risks of ineffective supervision (e.g., poor client outcomes, impaired job satisfaction, employee turnover).
    • I.2. Identify and apply strategies for establishing and maintaining effective supervisory relationships (e.g., active listening, providing reinforcement, reciprocal feedback).
    • I.3. Identify and implement methods that promote equity in supervision practices.
    • I.4. Establish clear performance expectations for the supervisor and supervisee.
    • I.5. Select supervision goals based on an assessment of the supervisee’s skills.
    • I.6. Apply empirically validated and competency-based approaches to train supervisees to perform assessment and intervention procedures.
    • I.7. Identify and apply empirically validated and culturally responsive performance management procedures (e.g., modeling, practice, feedback, reinforcement, task clarification, manipulation of response effort).
    • I.8. Apply a function-based approach (e.g., performance diagnostics) to assess and improve supervisee behavior.
    • I.9. Evaluate the effects of supervision (e.g., on client outcomes, on supervisee repertoires).
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