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BACB task lists

The Skills Library holds ready-made skillsets for ABA organizations. Importing one copies its skills into your organization, where they are yours to edit and assign to roles. Account setup imports some of them for you, by Purpose.

The Skills Library for an ABA organization: cards for the BCBA and BCaBA Test Content Outlines, the RBT Test Content Outline, Behavior Technician Basics and the RBT Competency Assessment, each with its skill count and an Import skillset button.
SkillsetSections
BCBA Test Content Outline (6th Edition)A. Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations; B. Concepts and Principles; C. Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation; D. Experimental Design; E. Ethical and Professional Issues; F. Behavior Assessment; G. Behavior-Change Procedures; H. Selecting and Implementing Interventions; I. Personnel Supervision and Management
BCaBA Test Content Outline (6th Edition)A. Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations; B. Concepts and Principles; C. Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation; D. Experimental Design; E. Ethical and Professional Issues; F. Behavior Assessment; G. Behavior-Change Procedures; H. Intervention Development and Monitoring; I. Supervisory Relationships
RBT Test Content Outline (3rd Edition)A. Data Collection and Graphing; B. Behavior Assessment; C. Behavior Acquisition; D. Behavior Reduction; E. Documentation and Reporting; F. Ethics
RBT Competency Assessment (2026)A. Measurement; B. Assessment; C. Skill Acquisition and Behavior Reduction; D. Professionalism and Requirements
Behavior Technician BasicsA. Program Preparation; B. Pairing & Reinforcements; C. Program Delivery; D. Data Collection; E. Professional Conduct

Each section holds the tasks it covers, such as A.1. Implement continuous measurement procedures in the RBT Test Content Outline. Every Test Content Outline task records prompting data; see Assessment types.

The RBT Competency Assessment (2026) holds the tasks RBT applicants, and RBTs renewing each year, must show they can perform, from 01. Continuous Measurement to 19. Clinical Direction. Each task is scored by how the assessor saw it, With a Client, Role-Play or Interview as the task allows, or Not Met. See Running the RBT Competency Assessment.

Behavior Technician Basics is a starting point for new behavior technicians, meant to be adapted to your clinic.

  1. Open Skills Library under Manage in the sidebar. It shows to people who can edit skills.

  2. Find the skillset in the list, or search for it with Search skillsets…. Select a card to see the skills inside.

  3. Select Import skillset. A message confirms the import, and the button reads Imported.

The skills then appear on the Skills page. To expect them of a role, such as the RBT Test Content Outline for your RBTs, add them to the role; see Roles and teams.