Practical Strategies for Passing the Exam: Session 259 with Dana Meller and Steve Eversole
The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria
Matt Cicoria
4.8 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
If you're a student, supervisor, or university instructor, this is an episode for you. In Session 259, I speak with Dana Meller and Dr. Steve Eversole, of Pass The Big ABA Exam and Behavior Development Solutions, respectively. In this conversation, they reflect on what they've learned about helping thousands of people pass the BCBA exam over many years.
In this conversation, we covered why they got into the test prep business, the state of BCBA testing today, re-taking the exam, interpreting the board's re-take data, barriers to passing the exam - including things like test anxiety and specific topics of difficulty, their counterintuitive opinions on SAFMEDS and mock exams, the role of social media, and how both of them became friends despite being competitors.
Here are the links we discussed:
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Honig and Staddon, Handbook of Operant Behavior.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the Behavioral Observations podcast. If you're a student supervisor or |
| 0:05.5 | university instructor, this is the episode for you in session 259. I speak with Donna Miller and Dr. Steve |
| 0:13.8 | Eversoll of past the big ABA exam and behavior development solutions, respectively. |
| 0:19.7 | In this conversation, they reflect on what they've |
| 0:21.7 | learned about helping thousands of people pass the BCBA exam over many years. In this conversation, |
| 0:27.4 | we covered why they got into the test prep business in the first place. We talk about the state |
| 0:32.2 | of BCBA testing today. We talk about retaking the exam, interpreting the board's retake data, |
| 0:40.3 | barriers to passing the exam, including things like test anxiety and specific topics of |
| 0:45.5 | difficulty. Their counterintuitive positions on SAF meds and mock exams, the role of social media, |
| 0:52.0 | and how both of them became friends despite being competitors. |
| 0:55.5 | This is a really interesting episode, and I think there are lots of just really nuggets of wisdom that, again, you will find very, very helpful. |
| 1:06.8 | You can find complete show notes to this episode and links to their respective websites and all |
| 1:12.4 | the other things that they talk about over at behavioral observations.com. |
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| 1:50.3 | You just get, again, the show notes delivered right to your email inbox. |
| 1:54.0 | Before we get to this episode, I want to let you know that we are brought to you by Ace approved CEUs from, well, behavioral observations. That's right. You can get |
| 2:02.8 | CECUs while listening to your favorite podcast episodes, and you can do so while you're driving, |
| 2:07.9 | walking your dog, folding the laundry, doing the dishes, or whatever else you might have going on. |
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