ABA Exam CoachLessons · I. Personnel Supervision and Management
I.7 · Is your supervision actually working?
You logged the hours and your supervisee says they love your sessions, but did their performance actually change? Let's look at how a BCBA uses data, not gut feeling, to judge whether supervision is working.
Key takeaway
Treat your supervision method as the independent variable. Measure supervisee performance and client outcomes directly and repeatedly, graph them, and check level, trend, and variability. If the data stay flat, change the supervision method instead of blaming the supervisee. Satisfaction surveys tell you about social validity, not whether supervision works. Code 4.10 says you have to keep evaluating your own supervision and adjust it when it isn't working.
Treat your supervision method as the independent variable. Measure supervisee performance and client outcomes directly and repeatedly, graph them, and check level, trend, and variability. If the data stay flat, change the supervision method instead of blaming the supervisee. Satisfaction surveys tell you about social validity, not whether supervision works. Code 4.10 says you have to keep evaluating your own supervision and adjust it when it isn't working.
Members get the full lesson video, notes and a 5-question test
The video walks through the idea, worked examples, the trap people fall into and an exam-style question. The notes and the checkpoint come with it, and your results feed your Where to focus plan.