Applied Psychology students can combine our high quality graduate-level ABA courses as electives and graduate with the required coursework to sit for the BCaBA® exam.
Note: Applicants for the BCaBA® exam will need to meet additional requirements, included supervised fieldwork, before they can be deemed eligible to take the examination.
Application Process
Any Oregon Tech student may enroll in BCaBA courses as long as they meet the prerequisites for each course.
If you are a non-degree seeking student, please follow the instructions below to enroll in the BCaBA course sequence:
- Visit Application Log In page and then follow the link to create an account. If you have already created an account, use the same email and password you used previously.
- After creating your new account, choose the option to Start a new Undergraduate Application for admission from your new account homepage.
- When prompted identify yourself as a non-degree seeking student and either the Klamath Falls, Portland-Metro or Online Location.
- Select the Applied Psychology – Non Degree Seeking option.
- Submit your completed application. An Oregon Tech ID number will be issued after your application is processed.
To enroll in the course, contact Dr. Dawn Bailey and state that you plan to take the BCaBA® courses. Please include your Oregon Tech student ID number.
BCaBA Courses
Foundations of ABA (ABA 511)
Prerequisite PSY 334 and 335. This course introduces students to basic principles, characteristics, and concepts of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).
Increasing Behavior (ABA 532)
In this course students learn about common assessment methods / tools used to support treatment, identify socially signifiant goals for a broad variety of clients and measure progress on those goals. This course also introduces students to behavior analytic intervention techniques specific to developing new skills or increasing behavior.
Decreasing Behavior (ABA 531)
This course covers the selection and implementation of functional behavior analysis (FBA) procedures and common behavior analytic intervention techniques related to decreasing interfering or challenging behavior
Ethics (ABA 521)
This course includes, but is not limited to, ethical principles, the BACB's ethics codes and requirements, the BACB's code-enforcement mechanisms, and our role as practicing professionals within the field of applied behavior analysis.
Research Methods (ABA 525)
This course introduces students to methods for conducting valid and reliable behavioral measurement, experimental evaluations of behavioral interventions, including data collection, data display, and data interpretation and designing and evaluating behavioral research designs. Students generally take this course concurrently with their first term of thesis.
Organizational Behavior Management (ABA 565)
Application of the theory, principles, and methods of behavior analysis in businesses, industries, human service organizations, and governments. The course examines organizational systems including their parts, processes, and people and key components of process improvement. Research in OBM is applied to conducting behavioral systems analyses, designing process maps and generating basic interventions for improving organizational processes.