RBT Renewal Competency Assessment Packet

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RBT

Renewal Competency

Assessment Packet: Requirements

Overview

All RBT certiﬁcants must demonstrate that they can competently perform the tasks on the Renewal Competency

Assessment as part of the annual requirements to maintain the RBT certiﬁcation. The Renewal Competency

Assessment is an important maintenance requirement because it requires an RBT to demonstrate their ongoing

proﬁciency in performing critical behavior technician skills. This demonstration is especially valuable because of

the integral, hands-on activities an RBT performs on the service-delivery team.

Qualiﬁed Assessor(s)

Responsible assessor: A BACB certiﬁcant (BCaBA or BCBA) who has completed the 8-hour supervision training is

responsible for overseeing the Competency Assessment. The responsible assessor must:

• Ensure that the assessment is conducted in accordance with these requirements;

• Sign the Renewal Competency Assessment;

• Maintain records of all assessments conducted; and

• Ensure that the assessment meets quality standards, even when assistant assessor(s) are involved in

conducting the assessment.

Assistant assessor(s): The responsible assessor may delegate some or all of the assessment to an assistant

assessor who has demonstrated, through direct observation, proﬁciency in the material being delivered. This

individual does not need to be certiﬁed by the BACB; however, the responsible assessor is professionally and

ethically accountable for all of the assistant assessor’s activities. The responsible assessor may utilize multiple

assistant assessors for a single Competency Assessment.

The responsible assessor and assistant assessor(s) (hereafter referred to as “assessor”) may notbe related to,

subordinate to, or employed by the RBT during the assessment. Employment does not include compensation paid

to the assessor by the RBT for assessment services.

Timing

The Renewal Competency Assessment cannot be completed more than 45 days before the RBT’s certiﬁcation

expiration date.

Structure

The Renewal Competency Assessment:

• May be conducted over one or more sessions.

• May be conducted in person, live via the internet, or through observations of recorded videos created

speciﬁcally for the purpose of the assessment.

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Administration

The assessor will provide an opportunity for the RBT to perform each task and evaluate whether the task was

performed in a competent manner. Based on the instructions in each section of the assessment, one of three

assessment types might be used to evaluate each task:

• With a client: the assessor observes the RBT performing the task with a client who is receiving behavior

analytic services.

• Role-play: the assessor observes the RBT performing the task in a situation similar to what might occur

with a client (i.e., with another person acting in the role of the client). This method may be used when

circumstances do not permit conducting the evaluation with a client.

• Interview: the assessor must conduct a live interview (in person or via the Internet) during which the

applicant must accurately describe or discuss the relevant concept and provide examples and nonexamples

where applicable. Initial and follow-up interview questions may be tailored to the applicant’s current clients

and/or workplace parameters.

If the RBT does not demonstrate competence in a task, the assessor may provide corrective feedback and

assess the task with the RBT on another day. This process must be repeated until competence is demonstrated.

Corrective feedback may not be delivered on the ﬁnal assessment of a task.

Documentation

After the assessor has observed a task being performed competently, the assessor will (a) initial the box next

to the task and (b) if applicable, mark the assessment type used. After all of the tasks have been competently

performed, the responsible assessor will sign and date the ﬁnal attestation.

RBTs will be required to submit a completed Renewal Competency Assessment with their annual certiﬁcation

renewal applications. Non-BACB forms will not be accepted.

Document Retention: The responsible assessor must maintain documentation of each assessment (e.g., completed

Competency Assessments, assessors who conducted portions of the assessment) for a minimum of 7 years.

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RBT

Renewal Competency Assessment:

Responsible Assessor Checklist

Instructions: The responsible assessor should complete this self-review checklist prior to overseeing a

Competency Assessment.

☐ I am actively certiﬁed as a BCBA or BCaBA.

☐ I am employed at the same organization as, or have a contractual relationship with, the applicant and client(s)

involved in the assessment.

☐ I am not related to, subordinate to, or employed by the RBT being assessed.

☐ I have completed the 8-hour supervision training.

☐ I have read and understand the Competency Assessment requirements (see pages 1–2).

☐ I have identiﬁed suitable clients for the tasks identiﬁed in the Competency Assessment (e.g., client tolerates

new therapists and new tasks, client has scheduling availability).

☐ I have a system to track and maintain records of completed Competency Assessments (e.g., dates delivered,

names of assistant assessors, dates completed; see the Sample RBT Assessor Log for an example of how to

track assessment information).

Oversight and Evaluation of Assistant Assessors

☐ I have criteria to evaluate the readiness of the assistant assessors and a process to assess their skills before

they complete portions of a Competency Assessment.

☐ I have materials for the assistant assessors who are conducting portions of the assessment (e.g., guided

instructions, evaluation criteria, role-play scenarios, videos) to ensure every assessment is conducted in a

high-quality manner.

☐ I have identiﬁed procedural integrity and interobserver agreement metrics and implemented systems to

ensure there is consistency within and across assessments (see the RBT Assessor Performance Evaluation

tracker for an example of tracking assistant assessor performance)

☐ I have a process to ensure that the assistant assessors are not related to, subordinate to, or employed by the

RBTs being assessed.

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RBT

Renewal Competency

Assessment: Form

RBT Name: _____________________________________________ RBT Certiﬁcation # : ______________

Name of Organization Where RBT is Employed: _________________________________________________

Instructions: All task items (1–20) must be completed. For tasks where there are multiple assessment type options,

one of the assessment types listed must be completed. Three of the tasks in the “Skill Acquisition and Behavior

Reduction” section must be demonstrated with a client. Complete this form in its entirety for consideration.

Incomplete documents will not be accepted.

Measurement

Tasks 1–3 Initials Assessment Type

Continuous Measurement: Implement continuous measurement

(e.g., frequency, duration, latency, IRT).

 With a Client

 Role-Play

 Interview

Discontinuous Measurement: Implement discontinuous

measurement procedures (e.g., partial and whole interval,

momentary time sampling).

 With a Client

 Role-Play

 Interview

3 Data and Graphs: Enter data and update graphs.

 With a Client

Assessment

Tasks 4–5 Initials Assessment Type

4 Preference Assessments: Conduct preference assessments.

 With a Client

 Role-Play

5 ABC Data: Collect ABC data.

 With a Client

 Role-Play

Skill Acquisition and Behavior Reduction

Three of tasks 6-15 must be demonstrated with a client.

Tasks 6–15 Initials Assessment Type

Discrete-Trial Teaching: Implement discrete-trial

teaching procedures.

 With a Client

 Role-Play

Naturalistic Teaching: Implement naturalistic teaching procedures

(e.g., incidental teaching).

 With a Client

 Role-Play

8 Chaining: Implement task analyzed chaining procedures.

 With a Client

 Role-Play

9 Shaping: Implement shaping procedures.

 With a Client

 Role-Play

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10 Discrimination Training: Implement discrimination training.

 With a Client

 Role-Play

Stimulus Control Transfer: Implement stimulus control

transfer procedures.

 With a Client

 Role-Play

12 Prompting: Implement prompt and prompt fading procedures.

 With a Client

 Role-Play

13 Token Systems: Implement token systems.

 With a Client

 Role-Play

Crisis/Emergency: Implement crisis/emergency procedures

according to protocol.

 With a Client

 Role-Play

Demonstrate one of the below tasks:

 Antecedent Interventions: Implement interventions based

on modiﬁcation of antecedents such as motivating/establishing

operations and discriminative stimuli.

 Dierential Reinforcement: Implement dierential reinforcement

procedures (e.g., DRA, DRO).

 Extinction: Implement extinction procedures.

 With a Client

 Role-Play

Professionalism and Requirements

Tasks 16–20 Initials Assessment Type

Session Notes: Generate objective session notes by describing

what occurred during sessions.

 With a Client

17 Client Dignity: Provide examples of how to maintain client dignity.  Interview

Professional Boundaries: Provide examples of how to maintain

professional boundaries.

 Interview

Supervision Requirements: Describe BACB Supervision Standards

for RBTs.

 Interview

Clinical Direction: Describe at least one situation in which you’d

seek clinical direction from your supervisor.

 Interview

Name of Organization Where Involved Client(s) Received Services: ____________________________________

Name of Organization Where Responsible Assessor is Employed/Has a Contractual Relationship:

_____________________________________

By signing below, I attest that the RBT has successfully demonstrated all task items (1–20):

Certiﬁcation Type:  BCaBA  BCBA  BCBA-D  FL-CBA BACB Certiﬁcation # : ____________

Responsible Assessor’s Printed Name: _________________________________________________________

Responsible Assessor’s Signature: ___________________________________________ Date: ____________

Assistant Assessors’ Names (if Applicable): ______________________________________________________

This document must be signed in accordance with the BACB’s Acceptable Signatures Policy.

(MM/DD/YYYY)