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QASP-S examination

Provider
Qualified Applied Behavior Analysis Credentialing Board (QABA); online examination live-proctored by Premier Proctoring
Format
Online live-proctored examination
Exam questions
125 questions: 100 live scored and 25 unscored pre-test questions
Time limit
3 hours
Passing score
Cut score (pass point) of 72%
Exam fee
$300 certification cost; $175 exam retake
Examination outline
  • A. Autism Spectrum Disorder Basics (5 scored items, +/-2) (5%)
    • 1. DSM-IV and DSM-V (or current DSM) related to autism spectrum disorders
    • 2. CDC risk factors and comorbidities related to autism spectrum disorders
    • 3. Developmental milestones (e.g., typical and atypical, age appropriate)
    • 4. Autism diagnostic process
  • B. Legal, Ethical, and Professional Considerations (11 scored items, +/-2) (11%)
    • 1. QABA Code of Ethics
    • 2. HIPAA regulations (e.g., confidentiality including limitations, mandated reporting, reportable documents, duty to warn vs. duty to protect
    • 3. Educational laws (e.g., IDEA, LRE, IEP, ADA, Rehabilitation Act, 504 Plan)
    • 4. Positive behavior supports
    • 5. Person-centered planning
    • 6. Methods of collaboration (e.g., treatment adherence, referral methods)
  • C. Core Principles of ABA (11 scored items, +/-2) (11%)
    • 1. Four-term contingency
    • 2. Respondent behavior vs. operant behavior
    • 3. Stimulus (e.g., stimulus control, discriminative stimulus, stimulus delta, SD-p, generalization, discrimination, response)
    • 4. Motivating operations including satiation and deprivation
    • 5. Dead man’s test
    • 6. Reinforcement and punishment (e.g., positive and negative)
    • 7. Matching law (e.g., rate, magnitude)
    • 8. Conditioned vs. unconditioned reinforcers/punishers
    • 9. Basic schedules of reinforcement (e.g., fixed interval, fixed ratio, variable interval and variable ratio)
    • 10. Risks to extinction procedures (e.g., extinction burst, spontaneous recovery and resurgence)
    • 11. Basic verbal operants (e.g., mand, tact, echoic and intraverbal)
    • 12. Scientific understanding: description, prediction, and control
    • 13. Six attitudes of science
    • 14. Seven dimensions of applied behavior analysis
  • D. Antecedent Interventions (13 scored items, +/-2) (13%)
    • 1. Antecedent strategies (e.g., priming, choices, behavior momentum, visual supports, Premack Principle, environmental modifications)
    • 2. Non-contingent reinforcement procedures
    • 3. Functional communication training
    • 4. Effects of setting events
  • E. Skill Acquisition Programming (13 scored items, +/-2) (13%)
    • 1. Goal writing criteria (e.g., objective measurable mastery criteria, targets)
    • 2. Social/cultural factors necessary for program success
    • 3. Error correction methods
    • 4. Prompts (e.g., hierarchy, procedures, fading, types, prompt dependency)
    • 5. ABA instructional and educational methodologies
  • F. Behavior Reduction Interventions (11 scored items, +/-2) (11%)
    • 1. Components of behavior intervention plans
    • 2. Components of token economies (e.g., backup reinforcers, generalized reinforcers, response-cost, ratio strain)
    • 3. Time-out procedures
    • 4. Differential reinforcement procedures
    • 5. Behavior contrast
    • 6. Functional assessments and functions of behaviors
    • 7. Group contingencies
    • 8. Components of contingency contracts
    • 9. Ethical considerations related to behavior reduction interventions (e.g., extinction, time-out procedures, group contingencies, punishment procedures)
  • G. Data Collection and Analysis (9 scored items, +/-2) (9%)
    • 1. Types of measurement (e.g., frequency/rate, duration, force/magnitude, response latency, and inter-response time)
    • 2. Types of ABA graphs
    • 3. Data collection methods
    • 4. Continuous vs. discontinuous measurement systems (e.g., partial interval recording, whole interval recording, momentary time sampling)
    • 5. Types of IOA (e.g., total count IOA and trial by trial IOA)
    • 6. Visual analysis (e.g., trend, level, and variability)
    • 7. Characteristics of trustworthy measurements (e.g., reliability, accuracy, and validity)
  • H. Assessment (15 scored items, +/-2) (15%)
    • 1. Types of preference and reinforcement assessments (i.e., limitations and benefits, implementation)
    • 2. Components of functional behavior assessment (e.g., including direct (descriptive) and indirect assessments and their advantages and limitations, definition and components of a FBA)
    • 3. Behavior assessment scales (interviews and scales)
    • 4. Conditional probability components
    • 5. Environmental analysis components
    • 6. Criteria for operational definitions
  • I. Training and Supervision (12 scored items, +/-2) (12%)
    • 1. Monitoring treatment and procedural integrity
    • 2. Observer drift and reactivity
    • 3. Inter-observer agreement validation methods
    • 4. Training procedures and behavior skills training
    • 5. Performance evaluation (e.g., feedback, documentation, continuous support)
    • 6. Coordination of care (e.g., parent training, collaboration, liaison, communicate in laymen's terms)
    • 7. Sociocultural values (considerations)
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