Question

Difficulty: medium. Skill: apply. Type: applied scenario.

A BCBA needs to know how long each episode of not starting assignments lasts in a telehealth caregiver meeting. Which measurement system best fits this question? The team wants the next step to be defensible from the current data.

A
Duration recording

Correct answer

B
Frequency recording
C
Latency recording
D
Permanent product recording

Explanation

Answer A

Duration recording measures how long behavior occurs, which matches the decision question in the stem.

Why the other choices are weaker

B
Choice B

Frequency counts occurrences but does not measure how long each episode lasts.

C
Choice C

Latency measures time from an antecedent to response onset.

D
Choice D

Permanent products measure outcomes left by behavior, not episode length here.

Study tags

MeasurementTreatment IntegrityData Collection

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