Practice question
Personnel Supervision and Management

Performance-management procedures: Behavioral skills training.

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

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Question

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

A supervisor reviews staff performance data during elementary classroom. Which action best fits performance-management procedures? The case file includes 5 recent sessions, 5 implementers, and 1 setting.

A
Change the intervention immediately based on the concern alone
B
Continue unchanged and ignore the new contextual information
C
Add a punishment procedure before clarifying function, risk, or feasibility
D
Use behavioral skills training with instructions, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback in relation to student's calling out during independent work

Correct answer

Explanation

Answer D

The clue is the combination of frequency data that vary from 3 to 11 responses per session, calling out during independent work, and the required task: Performance-management procedures. The case file includes 5 recent sessions, 5 implementers, and 1 setting. Use behavioral skills training with instructions, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback in relation to student's calling out during independent work is best because it answers that clue through behavioral skills training 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

Clue
Key scenario clue

The clue is the combination of frequency data that vary from 3 to 11 responses per session, calling out during independent work, and the required task: Performance-management procedures. The case file includes 5 recent sessions, 5 implementers, and 1 setting.

Trap
Common trap

This is weaker because it skips the assessment, integrity, or decision rule needed before changing procedures.

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Why the other choices are weaker

A
Choice A

This is weaker because it skips the assessment, integrity, or decision rule needed before changing procedures.

B
Choice B

Ignoring relevant data or context prevents a defensible behavior-analytic decision.

C
Choice C

A punishment-first response is weaker when less intrusive, function-based, or assessment steps have not been addressed.

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