Question
Difficulty: easy. Skill: recognize. Type: data interpretation.
The team is choosing an intervention for leaving the instructional area. Assessment and stakeholder feedback must be considered under data-based procedural-integrity decisions. What should the BCBA prioritize? The case file includes 9 recent sessions, 4 implementers, and 1 setting.
AProvide timely specific feedback, model correct implementation, and recheck treatment integrity in relation to learner's leaving the instructional areaCorrect answer
BSend the written protocol again without observing performance
CProceed informally because the team believes the action will help
DTell everyone to try harder and review the case next month
Explanation
Answer AThe clue is the combination of four sessions of stable baseline data followed by two overlapping intervention points, leaving the instructional area, and the required task: Data-based procedural-integrity decisions. The case file includes 9 recent sessions, 4 implementers, and 1 setting. Provide timely specific feedback, model correct implementation, and recheck treatment integrity in relation to learner's leaving the instructional area is best because it answers that clue through treatment integrity and performance feedback instead of treating the scenario as a generic behavior problem. On exam items like this, name the decision point first, then eliminate options that rely on one report, a label, a familiar protocol, or an action that skips the relevant data check.
Why this question is hard
ClueKey scenario clueThe clue is the combination of four sessions of stable baseline data followed by two overlapping intervention points, leaving the instructional area, and the required task: Data-based procedural-integrity decisions. The case file includes 9 recent sessions, 4 implementers, and 1 setting.
TrapCommon trapWritten directions alone do not verify performance or correct implementation errors.
NextIf you missed it, review Scope of competenceThen answer a few related scenarios before moving back to broad practice.
Why the other choices are weaker
BChoice BWritten directions alone do not verify performance or correct implementation errors.
CChoice CGood intent does not replace consent, documentation, competence, or other safeguards.
DChoice DVague delayed feedback does not create a measurable plan for improvement.
Study tags
Treatment integrity and performance feedbackData-based procedural-integrity decisionsintegrity checkssupervision
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