Practice Questions for the BCBA Certification Examination — Ebook with Full Explanations (EPUB + PDF)

300 original practice questions, every one written from the published content outline, with an explanation for every wrong answer as well as for the right one.

This is a question bank, not a textbook. It is built for the stage of study where the reading is done and what is left is finding out which answers are wrong, and why.

How the book is organised

• A diagnostic that returns a study order rather than a score, weighted by the content outline, so a gap in the 14.3 percent Behavior-Change Procedures domain outranks a gap in the 4.6 percent Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations domain.
• One chapter per content-outline domain: Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations; Concepts and Principles; Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation; Experimental Design; Ethical and Professional Issues; Behavior Assessment; Behavior-Change Procedures; Selecting and Implementing Interventions; Personnel Supervision and Management. The chapters, the diagnostic and both practice exams are drawn at the published weights.
• Questions in sets of ten, with the answers starting on a later page, so reading ahead by accident is not possible.
• Two timed practice exams of 120 questions each, mixed in the outline's proportions and paced to the real exam's 240 minutes for 185 questions.
• A second-best-answer drill, a misconception index, a task-statement cross-reference and a glossary.

What is different about the explanations

Most prep books explain the correct answer and leave the other three alone. Every explanation here does four things: why the key is right, traced to the task statement it came from; why each wrong option was tempting, naming the misconception behind it; the detail in the question that rules that option out; and the one line that separates the key from the next-best option. On a scenario exam the failure mode is rarely ignorance. It is choosing the second-best answer.

Written to the published content outline

Every question traces to a task statement in the sixth-edition BCBA Test Content Outline. The explanations draw on public sources: the Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts and the BCBA Handbook, the What Works Clearinghouse standards for single-case designs, open textbooks on learning and functional assessment, and open-access articles from the behavior-analytic journals. No question is taken from, or modelled on, any real exam question. The diagnostic, the two practice exams and the drill draw on the same bank, so 300 is the number of distinct questions in the book rather than a count of repeats.

Which exam this book is for

It is written for the exam based on the sixth-edition Test Content Outline, the edition the current BCBA Handbook names as the basis of the examination. No end date for that edition has been published. If a new edition is announced before you test, compare its domains with the chapter list above.

No book can promise a result. This one shows which answers are wrong, and what the wrong answer was built out of, before the exam asks.

This book is an independent study aid. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board. The trademarks “Behavior Analyst Certification Board®, Inc.,” “BACB®,” “Board Certified Behavior Analyst®,” “BCBA®,” “Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst®,” “BCaBA®,” and “RBT®” are owned by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board®. Unauthorized use or misrepresentation is strictly prohibited.

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