Practice question
Personnel Supervision and Management

Use behavioral skills training for staff performance deficits.

Original BCBA scenario practice question with answer explanation and wrong-choice notes.

Question

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

A technician can describe how to teach handwashing, but makes errors during live implementation. What supervision strategy best fits? The supervisor is deciding what feedback to give before the next session.

A
Use instructions, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback

Correct answer

B
Send the written protocol again and wait several weeks
C
Tell the technician to try harder
D
Remove the technician permanently from all cases

Explanation

Answer A

Behavioral skills training directly teaches performance through instruction, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback.

Why the other choices are weaker

B
Choice B

The technician can describe the protocol; performance practice and feedback are needed.

C
Choice C

A vague instruction is not a training procedure.

D
Choice D

Permanent removal is disproportionate based on a trainable performance deficit.

Study tags

BSTStaff TrainingCompetency

Practice interactively

Try more BCBA scenario questions in the interactive practice mode, then use review tools to track missed domains and flagged items.

Start practiceMore free questions