RBT Competency Checklist and Supervisory Feedback

• RBT Skills Checklist & Supervisory Feedback

• Client / Site

• Conducted on

  Date

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Organization/Professionalism

• RBT arrives on-time and prepared?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• RBT begins promptly/avoids wasted time?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• RBT maintains professional demeanor?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Data sheets are up-to-date and targets are appropriate to session?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Reinforcers, data sheets, materials ready and easily accessible?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Reinforcement

• Were reinforcers delivered immediately?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Did the RBT maintain control of the reinforcers?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Was the reinforcement schedule appropriate for the learner?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Did the RBT utilize differential reinforcement?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Did the RBT use a variety of reinforcers?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• RBT paired behavior-specific praise with tangible reinforcers?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Reinforcers were delivered contingent upon correct responses, attending, and lack of inappropriate behavior?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• RBT completed a preference assessment?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Direct Instruction

• RBT establishes instructional control?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• RBT establishes attention before placing instructional demand?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• RBT confirms MO of the learner?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Instructions and prompts are clear and concise?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Sd presented only 1 time before either a response or prompt? (No repeated Sds)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Tone of voice neutral?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Appropriate level of enthusiasm?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Tasks are mixed and varied across operants?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Appropriate ratio of easy (mastered) vs. difficult (acquisition) tasks? 80/20 rule?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Errorless teaching is used with appropriate time delay?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• RBT maintains appropriate pace of instruction (inter-trial intervals no more than 3 seconds)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• SDs are varied?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Teaches to fluency? <br>

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Updates maintenance targets and practices them within trials?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Consequences: Prompting and Error Correction

• Are prompts provided when necessary?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Was there only a 3 second delay between the Sd and the response or prompt?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are transfer trials presented after each prompted response?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• RBT uses prompts that reliably evoke the appropriate response?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are prompts varied depending on the skill being taught?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Were prompts progressively and systematically faded?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Are correction procedures implemented correctly? (Re-states Sd with 0 second time delay after error/no response?)

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Was every instruction followed by a consequence (reinforcement, prompt, or correction procedure)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Behavior Management

• Problem behavior protocols utilized correctly as outlined in BSP?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Implements antecedent strategies appropriately when unwanted behaviors are not occurring?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Utilizes appropriate behavior intervention when behavior occurs?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Provides positive reinforcement for an appropriate behavior following behavior intervention?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Maintains composure during procedures?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• RBT recorded appropriate data?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Data Collection/Program Management

• Begins and ends session with pairing?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Program book is fully updated and maintained?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Anecdotal notes are objective, clear, and complete?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• All supervisory recommendations are being followed/implemented?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Ethics

• RBT displayed integrity?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• RBT responded positively to feedback?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• RBT documented work and maintained confidentiality?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Avoided harmful reinforcers?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

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