Dana Do’s: Nine Considerations for Prioritizing Target Behaviors
PTB founder breaks down each of the nine considerations for prioritizing target behaviors.
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Dana Do’s: Mean or Median? Choosing the Right Level Line to Interpret Graph Data
Interpreting graphed data is an important skill to have, for the BCBA® exam and beyond. A fundamental part of this is the level line. PTB founder Dana Meller breaks down both methods for establishing a level line and when to use them.
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Dana Do’s: Importance of Experimental Design Fluency
PTB co-founder Dana Meller talks about the importance of being fluent in experimental designs, not just to pass the exam, but to be a good clinician as well.
Ref Section D-3: Identify the defining features of single-subject experimental designs (e.g., individuals serve as their own controls, repeated measures, prediction, verification, replication).
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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: How to Know if Your Study Activities are Effective
How do you know if your BCBA® study activities are effective? PTB co-founder Dana Meller shares some key analysis that may help BCBA® exam candidates assess efficacy.
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Dana Do’s: How to Discriminate Dependent vs. Independent Variables If You’re Not a Researcher
Not a researcher? How about some help discriminating between dependent and independent variables. PTB co-founder Dana Meller offers a few tips to make that distinction on the BCBA® exam.
Dana Do’s: How to Determine Preference of Tested Stimuli
How do you determine the relative preference of tested stimuli during trial-based preference assessments? PTB Founder Dana Meller breaks it down.
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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: How to Decipher the Many Forms of Validity
It’s particularly meaningful to be able to tell validity, social validity, internal and external validity apart. PTB co-founder Dana Meller has some tips to do just that.
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Dana Do’s: Four Reasons for Conducting Accuracy Assessments
How do we ensure the data we collect is truly reliable? PTB founder Dana Meller (MA, BCBA) breaks down the importance of accuracy assessments and shares four key reasons why they’re crucial.
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