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Revised
Standards for
Board Certified Associate Behavior Analyst® (BCABA®)
Also
see: BCBA
Standards
New Experience Eligibility Standards & Phase-In
Policy
If You Applied Before
Spring 2005 Deadlines
New Supervisor Requirement
All experience begun after
September 1, 2006 to qualify individuals for certification
examination must be supervised by a BCBA. Details will be posted
when they are available.
CHANGES
IN THE STANDARDS
Applicants
are responsible for ensuring that they apply under the current BACB
Standards. The current BACB Standards will be posted on the BACB
website. The BACB Standards are subject to revision in the sole
discretion of the BACB Board of Directors. Whenever possible, advance
notice of any substantial standard changes will also be posted at this
website.
Eligibility to sit for the BCABA certification examination requires
completion of Sections A, and B below and compliance with all other
rules and requirements of the BACB.
A.
Degree Requirement:
Possession
of a minimum of a bachelor's degree from any of the following:
- United
States or Canadian institution of higher education fully or provisionally
accredited by a regional, state, provincial or national accrediting
body; or
- An
institution of higher education located outside the United States
or Canada that, at the time the applicant was enrolled and at the
time the applicant graduated, maintained a standard of training equivalent
to the standards of training of those institutions accredited in the
United States.
B.
Coursework and Experience Requirements
- Coursework:
The
applicant must complete 135 classroom hours of instruction (see Definition
of Terms below) in the following content areas and for the number
of hours specified:
- Ethical
considerations – 10 hours
- Definition
& characteristics and Principles, processes & concepts
- 40 hours
- Behavioral
assessment and Selecting intervention outcomes & strategies
- 25 hours
- Experimental
evaluation of interventions, & Measurement of behavior and
Displaying & interpreting behavioral data - 20 hours
- Behavioral
change procedures and Systems support 40 hours
Acceptable Coursework:
Instruction of the type(s) specified in either a, b, or c, below, will
be accepted toward the coursework requirement.
- College
or university courses in behavior analysis, that are taken from
an institution that meets the requirements specified in Section
A.
- Non-college
or university courses approved for this purpose by the State of
Florida (subject to rules).
- A
combination of college or university courses and approved courses.
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Experience:
New experience standards for qualifying for the Board
Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and Board Certified Associate
Behavior Analyst (BCABA) examinations were adopted and posted on
BACB.com on March 17, 2005. The new standards will be
phased-in as follows:
In General:
Individuals may not mix
experience accumulated under the old standards with experience accumulated
under the new standards to qualify for examination – all experience
must be obtained either under
the old standards or under the new standards.
Prior to July 1, 2006:
Individuals may begin accumulating experience either under
the old experience standards or under the new experience
standards.
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Individuals who begin accumulating experience under
the old standards prior to July 1, 2006 must complete
their experience under the old standards by July 1, 2007. This
means that individuals may need to accumulate their experience under
supervision rather than mentoring to accumulate the required amount
of experience by July 1, 2007. Individuals accumulating experience
under the old standards may use a mixture of Supervision and Mentoring
as long as they have sufficient experience by July 1, 2007.
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Individuals who begin accumulating experience under
the new standards prior to July 1, 2006 will not have
the abovementioned time limits imposed on completing their experience. Individuals accumulating experience under the new
standards may use a mixture of Supervised Independent Fieldwork, Practicum,
and Intensive Practicum.
On July 1, 2006 and Thereafter:
Individuals who begin accumulating experience after
this date must do so under the new standards. Individuals
accumulating experience under the new standards may use a mixture of
Supervised Independent Fieldwork, Practicum, and Intensive Practicum.
OLD EXPERIENCE
STANDARDS - BCABA
NEW EXPERIENCE
STANDARDS - BCABA
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Also
see: BCBA
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