A supervisor needs to conduct her weekly supervision session and provide feedback to her RBT. The supervisor records the amount of time that passes between each of the RBT’s discrete trials. Which continuous recording method did the supervisor use?

Leah would like to increase the number of vocabulary flashcards she can answer correctly in a 30-minute interval. Which of the following continuous recording methods would be best for Leah to use?

A BCBA asks a stay-at-home father to gather data on his son, Kris, who engages in teeth grinding. The father has four other kids at home and reports that he struggles to take continuous frequency or duration data. The BCBA instructs the father to take data every two minutes during a 30-minute period and to mark an “X” if Kris is grinding his teeth when the timer goes off at the end of each interval and a “0” if he is not. Which recording method did Kris’s father use?

While group-home staff members are preparing meals, they cannot continuously observe their clients. Monica is a BCBA working at the group home. She notices that one of the clients often pulls threads out of their clothing and wants staff to track this behavior. Which of the following recording methods would be best for Monica to use?

Kili’s client attends a social-skills group. Kili wants to increase the length of time her client engages in pretend play skills with his peers. Which of the following recording methods would be best for Kili to use?

The running app on Tiffany’s phone sends a notification and, 2 seconds later, Tiffany begins to run and runs for 5 minutes. After running for 5 minutes, Tiffany stops running. After 5 minutes, the running app sends another notification, and Tiffany begins to run again. Tiffany runs 10 times. Each running session lasts 5 minutes. Which part of this scenario exemplifies the fundamental property of temporal extent?

Eliana finds a current article on the effectiveness of telehealth practices in the delivery of ABA supervision. Eliana is curious about the relevance of this study and why the study was necessary concerning telehealth and behavioral services. Which part of the research article is the best place for Eliana to find this information?

Marshall is looking for information on using shaping procedures to teach his client to brush their teeth. After reviewing several articles in various journals, Marshall selects a protocol from an article he read that matches best with his client’s current repertoire. Marshall then implements the protocol with his client to teach toothbrushing. In this scenario, Marshall is specifically adhering to which characteristic of the scientist-practitioner model?

Elena works as a school behavior analyst in a special education classroom. Franco is a new student with significant intellectual delays who has entered the class and has a history of engaging in polydipsia (excessive drinking of water). Elena talks to her supervisor, who suggests she conduct a literature search about polydipsia. What should Elena have already done as part of her literature review prior to identifying the topics and terms to search?

Moana is a BCBA who is working with a client to increase their reading fluency. She wants to determine which of the two protocols she pulled from the literature would be the most effective for increasing her learner’s reading fluency. She takes baseline data until stability and then implements that first protocol. After reaching stability with the first protocol, she does a return to baseline and then implements the second protocol. After several replications of both protocols, she then analyzes the data to determine which protocol led to higher reading fluency for her learner. Moana is adhering to which characteristic of the scientist-practitioner model?