RBT Test (Iowa) with Complete
Solutions
Your supervisor asks you to record the total amount of a time a student is wandering the
class. The behavior begins when the student goes beyond a piece of tape marked on
the floor signaling the student is wandering. The behavior stops when the student is
behind the piece of tape agai. What data collection method would give your supervisor
the information they requested? - ANS-Duration
When preparing for your session with your client and preparing for data collection, you
should do all of the following except? - ANS-You should do all of the following:
Determine what programs you plan to work on during the session, set up the first set of
programs so they are ready for the client when you begin the session, and read/review
from last session.
Your supervisor needs you to collect data on property destruction for a client and asks
you to do a 60 minute observation on Monday, a 180 minute observation on Tuesday,
no observation on Wednesday, a 90 minute observation on Thursday, and a 120 minute
observation on Friday. What type of data collection method would allow you to
effectively compare the data across all four observations? - ANS-Rate
A BCBA asks an RBT to go and count how many inset puzzles a client completed
during their session today which are sitting on a shelf in the client's area. The BCBA
tells the RBT that the client has already left for the day so they can get the data
whenever they have a moment before ending their shift. What type of data might this
be? - ANS-Permanent product recording
An RBT is asked to determine how many trials it took their client to get 100% on math
worksheet D. It took the client 6 trials to get 100% on math worksheet A, 4 trials to get
100% on math worksheet B and 9 trials to get 100% on math worksheet C. What
measurement system would provide this data for math worksheet D? - ANS-Trials to
criterion
An RBT is doing some landscaping on the weekend. They call over a friend to help and
the friend starts using the leaf blower to blow wind against their face. The wind blowing
against the RBT's face is? - ANS-An overt behavior
A BCBA tells an RBT that they will be collecting data on hand raising behavior in the
classroom during the morning circle routine. Each interval is 5 minutes long and the
supervisor tells the RBT that once the target behavior occurs, hand raising, they don't
, have to attend to the student for the remainder of the interval. What type of data
collection is the BCBA asking the RBT to collect? - ANS-Partial interval recording
An RBT is asked to put a title on the horizontal axis of a graph for a skill acquisition
program. What title should they put? - ANS-Session/Days
An RBT is asked to watch a client's soccer practice for 60 minutes and collect data on
how many times the client, a goalie, can stop the ball when they face exactly 25 shots
from their team. What data would capture this? - ANS-Percentage of occurrence
You're working with a 46 year old client at a treatment home and you tell them a funny
joke and they laugh out loud. Later on in your shift, the client says, "I thought your joke
was funny earlier". What type of behavior is it when the client is thinking that your joke
was funny? - ANS-Covert
An RBT is told to collect about 8 toys for a client who they have been working with for
about 6 months. The RBT is quite familiar with the client's preferences and gets 8 items
they think the client will love. The supervisor tells the RBT to let the client have
continuous access to all items for exactly 30 minutes. The RBT is also asked to collect
partial interval data to determine the duration of time the child engages with each toy.
What type of preference assessment is this? - ANS-Free operant
An RBT is asked to take some data for a direct assessment. What may this include? -
ANS-It includes all of the following: Scatterplots, ABC narrative recording, and ABC
continuous recording
The BCBA supervisor is completely over-booked and is having difficulty completing their
workload. A young up and coming RBT currently in an ABA Master's program asked if
there is anything they can do to support. The BCBA tells them that they need to conduct
a functional analysis for a client on the RBT's caseload except they are too busy to do it.
They ask the RBT to write up the functional analysis plan and to implement it
independently then they will check back at the end to analyze the results. - ANS-RBT's
can not conduct a functional analysis independently
An RBT is collecting baseline data for a skill based assessment and the BCBA has
asked that they baseline all skills on the assessment for at least three trials., non-
consecutively, over the course of a day. During the first trial of a sorting shapes task,
the client makes an error. What should the RBT do next? - ANS-Move onto another task
An RBT is asked to conduct a preference assessment for a teenager around food
preferences. The RBT presents two foods at once and collects data on which food the
teenager eats first. The RBT has a casual meeting scheduled in exactly an hour and
wants this preference assessment finished by then. If it takes longer, that's fine and they
can reschedule their meeting. The RBT ensures that all of the foods are matched with
each other randomly throughout the assessment. What type of preference assessment
might this be? - ANS-Paired stimulus
Solutions
Your supervisor asks you to record the total amount of a time a student is wandering the
class. The behavior begins when the student goes beyond a piece of tape marked on
the floor signaling the student is wandering. The behavior stops when the student is
behind the piece of tape agai. What data collection method would give your supervisor
the information they requested? - ANS-Duration
When preparing for your session with your client and preparing for data collection, you
should do all of the following except? - ANS-You should do all of the following:
Determine what programs you plan to work on during the session, set up the first set of
programs so they are ready for the client when you begin the session, and read/review
from last session.
Your supervisor needs you to collect data on property destruction for a client and asks
you to do a 60 minute observation on Monday, a 180 minute observation on Tuesday,
no observation on Wednesday, a 90 minute observation on Thursday, and a 120 minute
observation on Friday. What type of data collection method would allow you to
effectively compare the data across all four observations? - ANS-Rate
A BCBA asks an RBT to go and count how many inset puzzles a client completed
during their session today which are sitting on a shelf in the client's area. The BCBA
tells the RBT that the client has already left for the day so they can get the data
whenever they have a moment before ending their shift. What type of data might this
be? - ANS-Permanent product recording
An RBT is asked to determine how many trials it took their client to get 100% on math
worksheet D. It took the client 6 trials to get 100% on math worksheet A, 4 trials to get
100% on math worksheet B and 9 trials to get 100% on math worksheet C. What
measurement system would provide this data for math worksheet D? - ANS-Trials to
criterion
An RBT is doing some landscaping on the weekend. They call over a friend to help and
the friend starts using the leaf blower to blow wind against their face. The wind blowing
against the RBT's face is? - ANS-An overt behavior
A BCBA tells an RBT that they will be collecting data on hand raising behavior in the
classroom during the morning circle routine. Each interval is 5 minutes long and the
supervisor tells the RBT that once the target behavior occurs, hand raising, they don't
, have to attend to the student for the remainder of the interval. What type of data
collection is the BCBA asking the RBT to collect? - ANS-Partial interval recording
An RBT is asked to put a title on the horizontal axis of a graph for a skill acquisition
program. What title should they put? - ANS-Session/Days
An RBT is asked to watch a client's soccer practice for 60 minutes and collect data on
how many times the client, a goalie, can stop the ball when they face exactly 25 shots
from their team. What data would capture this? - ANS-Percentage of occurrence
You're working with a 46 year old client at a treatment home and you tell them a funny
joke and they laugh out loud. Later on in your shift, the client says, "I thought your joke
was funny earlier". What type of behavior is it when the client is thinking that your joke
was funny? - ANS-Covert
An RBT is told to collect about 8 toys for a client who they have been working with for
about 6 months. The RBT is quite familiar with the client's preferences and gets 8 items
they think the client will love. The supervisor tells the RBT to let the client have
continuous access to all items for exactly 30 minutes. The RBT is also asked to collect
partial interval data to determine the duration of time the child engages with each toy.
What type of preference assessment is this? - ANS-Free operant
An RBT is asked to take some data for a direct assessment. What may this include? -
ANS-It includes all of the following: Scatterplots, ABC narrative recording, and ABC
continuous recording
The BCBA supervisor is completely over-booked and is having difficulty completing their
workload. A young up and coming RBT currently in an ABA Master's program asked if
there is anything they can do to support. The BCBA tells them that they need to conduct
a functional analysis for a client on the RBT's caseload except they are too busy to do it.
They ask the RBT to write up the functional analysis plan and to implement it
independently then they will check back at the end to analyze the results. - ANS-RBT's
can not conduct a functional analysis independently
An RBT is collecting baseline data for a skill based assessment and the BCBA has
asked that they baseline all skills on the assessment for at least three trials., non-
consecutively, over the course of a day. During the first trial of a sorting shapes task,
the client makes an error. What should the RBT do next? - ANS-Move onto another task
An RBT is asked to conduct a preference assessment for a teenager around food
preferences. The RBT presents two foods at once and collects data on which food the
teenager eats first. The RBT has a casual meeting scheduled in exactly an hour and
wants this preference assessment finished by then. If it takes longer, that's fine and they
can reschedule their meeting. The RBT ensures that all of the foods are matched with
each other randomly throughout the assessment. What type of preference assessment
might this be? - ANS-Paired stimulus
