BCBA Personnel Supervision and Management Practice Questions
Domain I of the BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.) · 19 of the 175 scored questions (11%)
185 questions across all nine domains in 4 hours, with a score for supervision and management so you know where you stand.
Free supervision and management drillThe Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Human Services (PDC-HS) organizes its questions into four domains. Which of the following is one of them?
Personnel Supervision and Management on the BCBA
Personnel Supervision and Management is 19 of the 175 scored questions. It applies behavior analysis to the people who deliver services: building effective supervisory relationships, setting supervision goals, using performance management that works, diagnosing why staff performance falls short, and checking whether supervision itself is effective.
- Share of the exam
- 19 of 175 scored questions (11%) on every exam form
- Outline tasks
- 7 (I.1 to I.7)
- Our drill
- 10 questions from 56 supervision and management questions, untimed, an explanation after every answer; one free attempt, unlimited with a pass
What supervision and management questions test
- Benefits of behavior-analytic supervision for clients, staff performance and retention (task I.1)
- Supervisory relationships: supervisor–supervisee contracts, clear expectations, and giving and accepting feedback (task I.2)
- Equity in supervision practices (task I.3)
- Supervision goals based on the supervisee’s skills, cultural variables and the environment (task I.4)
- Performance management: behavioral skills training (instructions, modeling, rehearsal, feedback), reinforcement, task clarification and changing response effort (task I.5)
- Function-based approaches such as the Performance Diagnostic Checklist–Human Services (PDC-HS) (task I.6)
- Data-based decisions about whether supervisory practices are working (task I.7)
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185 questions across all nine domains in 4 hours, with a score for supervision and management so you know where you stand.
Free supervision and management drillHow to study it
- Learn behavioral skills training as four steps in order: instructions, modeling, rehearsal, feedback, repeated until the skill meets a criterion.
- For performance problems, ask the PDC-HS questions first: training, task clarification and prompting, resources and processes, or consequences. The fix should match the cause.
- Remember that supervision is judged by supervisee and client outcomes, not by hours logged.
- Many questions overlap with Code section 4 (responsibility to supervisees and trainees). Read it alongside this domain.
Common questions
What is the PDC-HS?
The Performance Diagnostic Checklist–Human Services is an interview tool that helps a supervisor find why an employee is not performing a task: missing training, unclear expectations or prompts, lacking resources or processes, or consequences that do not support the task. Task I.6 asks you to use this kind of function-based approach before choosing a fix.
How many supervision questions are on the BCBA exam?
Nineteen of the 175 scored questions, 11% of the exam, across seven tasks from I.1 to I.7. Supervision also appears in the ethics domain through Code section 4.
185 questions across all nine domains in 4 hours, with a score for supervision and management so you know where you stand.
Free supervision and management drillThe other BCBA domains
Sources
Original practice questions for exam preparation, written to the BACB’s BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.) and the Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts (2022). Independent practice, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB). BCBA® and BACB® are registered trademarks of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board.