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(BACB®) . All rights reserved.  \nIntroducing the 2025 BCBA and BCaBA Examinations  \nThe BACB® periodically evaluates its examination content to ensure that it reflects changes in professional practice. These periodic reviews also help the BACB adhere to standards set by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies, the BACB’s certification-program accreditor. This evaluation is called a job task analysis (JTA), and its outcome has historically been referred to as a task list. In April 2021, the BACB began its evaluation of the content that will appear on the 2025 BCBA® and BCaBA® examinations. However, before further describing the BACB’s recent JTAs, it is important to consider the primary role of the task list.  \nReconsidering the Task List  \nCertification examinations act as gatekeepers to the profession, ensuring that certificants know enough to safely and competently practice. For this reason, it is vital that examination content is clearly communicated to potential applicants as early as possible for their preparation efforts. The BCBA and BCaBA task lists have always served this primary purpose. However, due to the rapid growth of the applied behavior analysis profession and its infrastructure over the past two decades, these task lists have acquired additional functions beyond their essential one.  \nThe BCBA and BCaBA task lists have been treated as all-encompassing lists of critical behavior-analytic content, which they are not. This interpretation was understandably a result of limited curricular and supervision resources in the profession, as well as references to task lists made by the BACB in its certification requirements. To be clear, the BCBA and BCaBA task lists are not university curricula, although their content should be included in most curricula, along with additional content not included in the task lists. Similarly, the task lists are not supervised fieldwork curricula, although some of their content is certainly useful for supervision activities.  \nIt is time in our profession to reaffirm the original and core purpose of the BCBA and BCaBA task lists so that they primarily serve as outlines of examination content. To emphasize this point, the new editions of the BCBA and BCaBA task lists will be named test content outlines (TCOs), which is how some other professions refer to these types of documents.  \nIn the past, new BCBA and BCaBA examinations were implemented  \nconcurrently with revised certification requirements. Although this approach  \nBACB Newsletter: February 2022 | 1  \nworked well in an earlier era, this linkage of the examination and certification requirements resulted in lengthy intervals between new examinations so that universities had sufficient time to develop and implement the new requirements. Moving forward, BCBA and BCaBA examinations and their respective TCOs will be updated independent of changes to certification requirements. This will enable examination content to be revised more frequently in response to changes in the profession. This increased responsiveness is possible due to the relative stabilization of TCO content and certification requirements.  \nThe remainder of this newsletter describes the development of the 6th editions of the BCBA and BCaBATCOs, on which their respective examinations will be based beginning in 2025.  \n2025 BCBA Examination  \nJob Task Analysis  \nJob task analysis is the predominant method for developing high-stakes examinations for pr","cbCaiuO1BCOphrGw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuO1BCOphrGw","pdf",907290,"English","# Introducing the 2025 BCBA and BCaBA Examinations\n## Reconsidering the Task List\n## 2025 BCBA Examination\n## Job Task Analysis","[{\"question\":\"What is job task analysis (JTA) and how does it affect BACB exams?\",\"answer\":\"JTA is the process BACB uses to evaluate examination content so it reflects changes in professional practice. 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