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Personnel Supervision and Management: practice questions

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Personnel Supervision and ManagementDifficulty 2/5

A supervisee's session fidelity remains poor after reading the written protocol and attending a lecture. What should the supervisor do next?

  1. AIncrease the supervisee's caseload so experience builds fidelity
  2. BProvide the protocol again in writing with the key steps highlighted
  3. CUse behavioral skills training: instruction, modelling, rehearsal and feedback to a mastery criterion
  4. DReassign the case to a supervisee whose fidelity is already adequate
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Correct: C. Instruction alone rarely changes performance. BST adds modelling, rehearsal and feedback, with in-situ training when performance does not transfer to the real session.

  • B — Repeating an ineffective instruction changes nothing.
  • D — Reassignment avoids the training problem rather than solving it.
  • A — More cases at low fidelity increases client risk.
Personnel Supervision and ManagementDifficulty 3/5

Which feedback practice is most consistent with the evidence base for supervision?

  1. AFeedback limited to errors, so that praise does not reduce vigilance
  2. BAnonymous peer feedback collected quarterly and summarised by the supervisor
  3. CMonthly written summaries of overall performance against the job description
  4. DImmediate, specific, behavior-focused feedback paired with reinforcement for improvement
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Correct: D. Effective performance feedback is timely, specific to observable behavior, and combines corrective information with reinforcement for improvement. Delayed or exclusively corrective feedback is markedly less effective.

  • C — Monthly summaries are too delayed and too general to change performance.
  • A — Corrective-only feedback degrades the supervisory relationship and performance.
  • B — Quarterly anonymous feedback cannot shape day-to-day skills.

Primary references

  1. BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.), in effect since 2025 — Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) · primary · retrieved 2026-09-22, verified 2026-09-22