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Core concepts

A few ideas underpin everything in Behaview. Once these click, the rest of the platform makes sense.

The building blocks

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  • Skill: a specific, observable capability someone can develop, such as the RBT Test Content Outline item “C.3. Implement discrete-trial teaching procedures”. Each skill has a way to assess it and a bar for what counts as mastery. Skills can be organized into trees, with broader skills made up of narrower ones, the way a task list’s sections hold its items. Skill is Behaview’s unit of supervision; see Skills overview.
  • Role: a grouping of the skills expected of a person in that role, such as RBT, BCaBA, or BCBA Candidate. Assigning someone a role sets their skill expectations, and the same skill can belong to many roles.
  • Person: anyone in your organization. People are assigned to roles and teams, and inherit the skills those roles expect. Each person is one of three types (see Clients and Guardians):
    • Staff: your team, such as RBTs, Behavior Technicians, BCaBAs, BCBAs, and admins.
    • Clients: the people your organization serves.
    • Guardians/Parents: a Client’s caregivers. They get no skill assignments.
  • Session Plan: any session you run with a person: a supervision session, an overlap or staff observation, a self-assessment, or a trainee’s independent fieldwork. You take notes, collect data, and score skills, whether they’re demonstrated live in the session or talked through. An ABA organization starts with four types: Session Plan (listed as Staff Observation under custom fields & domain types), Self-assessment, BACB Supervision, and BACB Independent Session. Session Plans are the heart of how skill levels get measured, and the BACB reports count their hours. See Session Plans overview.
  • Observer and Observee: the two people on a Session Plan. The Observer runs it, and the Observee is the person being observed. On the BACB Supervision and BACB Independent Session types, the form calls them Supervisor and Supervisee.
  • (Skill) Observation: a single recorded assessment of one skill, captured during a Session Plan or on its own.
  • (Skill) Mastery: how far someone has demonstrated a skill. Proficient is reliably meeting its score threshold over a set number of consecutive sessions, as scored by an Observer (or being assumed proficient); Mastered also needs the latest Observer-recorded score to be 100. See Calculating mastery.

If your organization calls Session Plans something else, renaming them is available on request: contact us and we will turn it on for your organization. An admin then sets your own word in Organization > Edit organization > Terminology, and most of Behaview follows.

How they fit together

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The building blocks all serve one supervision loop. Each stage of the loop is something you do, and the building blocks are what you do it with:

flowchart TB
  D["1. Set expectations<br/><small>assign a Role: the task-list Skills expected of the person</small>"]
  C["2. Supervise and observe<br/><small>run Session Plans, record Observations</small>"]
  T["3. Track progress<br/><small>watch Mastery and BACB hours build</small>"]
  P["4. Re-prioritize<br/><small>pick the skills to focus on next</small>"]

  D --> C
  C --> T
  T --> P
  T -. regularly repeat .-> C
  P -. periodically repeat .-> D

You set expectations by assigning a role, which groups the skills expected of the person, often straight from a BACB task list. From there, most of your time is the inner loop: supervise and observe in Session Plans, and track the mastery and supervised hours that build, with no need to keep revisiting expectations. Periodically, you re-prioritize: review which skills matter most for each supervisee’s next step and update their focus, so every session covers the skills with the most impact.

Who’s involved

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Most people wear more than one hat (a BCBA who supervises is also a staff member with their own role and skills) but it helps to know the three vantage points. (For the underlying access levels, the Admin, Supervisor, Supervisee, and Viewer permission sets, see Users & permissions.)

Where to go next

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