Continuous measurement in ABA
Lesson 5 of 36 in RBT Exam Prep. The start plays free here.
- Follow your supervisor's direction
- Implement services accurately
- Record client data accurately
- Frequency: count every occurrence
- Rate: count ÷ observation time
- Duration: time each occurrence
- Latency: event to behavior start
- IRT: response end to next start
- Percentage: part ÷ total × 100
- All 43 outline tasks
- 85 questions, 90 minutes
- Explains each wrong answer
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How the lesson starts
Your supervisor asks you to collect data on a client's behavior. Those records are part of your job, and they need to be accurate.
Your client requests help. You record each request during observation. That's frequency recording. Continuous measurement captures every occurrence, whether you count each instance or time how long each lasts.
Then, in the full lesson
- Count over time
- Time each episode
- Wait to start
- Between responses
- Count opportunities
- 2 questions along the way
A question from this lesson
You record 18 hand raises during 9 minutes. What rate do you report?
- 9 hand raises per minute
- 2 hand raises per minute
- 18 hand raises per minute
Show the answer
B. 2 hand raises per minute. 2 hand raises per minute is 18 divided by 9. Reporting 18 per minute treats the count as the rate. Reporting 9 per minute uses the observation time instead of dividing.
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Paid once, no subscription. Ask for a refund within 7 days of buying if you’ve done less than 25% of the class.
- All 43 outline tasks
- 85 questions, 90 minutes
- Explains each wrong answer
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