Dana Do’s: Warning. Be Careful of Extremes.
PTB co-founder Dana Meller sends an important warning for test takers. Watch out for extremes in exam questions and answer options.
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Dana Do’s: How to Use Mock Exams in Your Study Plan
I was recently asked if mock exams are useful in predicting how someone will do on the actual big exam. And, is repeating the same mock exam an effective study
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Dana Do’s: Your BCBA® Certificate Offers Entrepreneurial Opportunities
PTB co-founder Dana Meller offers some inspiration to current and future BCBA® certificants to consider other paths to impact and support the community, in entrepreneurial ways.
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Dana Do’s: What Would Cooper Do?
PTB co-founder offers a new approach to reframing your mindset when answering questions on the BCBA® exam that may help you beat the odds.
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Dana Do’s: Attention Multiple BCBA® Retakers (You are Going to Want to Hear This)
The data shows candidates struggle to pass the BCBA® exam on later attempts. PTB co-founder Dana Meller takes a deeper look at the data and offers a strategy for beating the retaker odds.
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Dana Do’s: What’s the Difference Between Pragmatism and Determinism?
PTB co-founder Dana Meller offers a relatable cause-and-effect scenario that helps discriminate between determinism and pragmatism.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section A-2: Explain the philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism, empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism).
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Dana Do’s: How to Define the Markers of Trustworthy Measurement
PTB co-founder goes into the three factors that define trustworthy measurement– “validity”, “reliability” and “accuracy”. But what’s the difference between each? Dana explains.
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Dana Do’s: The Scientific Goals of Behavior Analysis
PTB co-founder Dana Meller takes on the first portion of the Task List with a quick lesson about section A-1. The secret sauce for understanding the goal of behavior analysis? It all comes down to description, prediction, and control.
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Dana Do’s: Which Group Contingency Do I Use?
PTB co-founder Dana Meller distills the three different interventions, related by the group.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section G-18: Use group contingencies.
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Dana Do’s: Relating, Framing and Equating
Relating, framing and equating. PTB co-founder Dana Meller drills into the generalizability of relational frame theory, equivalence-based instruction, and stimulus equivalence. Would you believe they all go together?
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Sections B-15: Define and provide examples of derived stimulus relations; G-21: Use procedures to promote stimulus and response generalization; G-12: Use equivalence-based instruction.
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