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Project Title: Providing IBT Course Content to Increase Delivery of High Quality Courses in Nations with Limited Access to Behavior Analysis
Across the globe there are many people seeking affordable culturally relevant coursework to become behavior analysts and behavior therapists. One of the requirements to become an International Behavior Therapist (IBT) through the International Behavior Analysis Organization (IBAO) is to complete a 40-hour course by an Approved Content Provider (ACP). Gabrielle Torres, an ACP, has been teaching both the IBT and International Behavior Analyst (IBA) courses to students from over 15 countries. She has noticed that in nations where ABA is still emerging, there are behavior analysts who want to provide their teams and other professionals with high quality ABA training like the IBT course, but they do not have the experience or time to design their own course.
This SABA grant will support a project that aims to remove some of these barriers by providing the content for a hybrid 40-hour course, as a combination of interactive online modules and live session course materials, that qualified instructors can sign up to use within their organizations.
To become a qualified instructor, behavior analysts must be from a country where behavior analysis is still emerging and complete and pass a free instructor training course. Once they pass the instructor course, they may deliver the course using the materials created through this project. While the instructors may charge for their courses and time spent teaching, these materials will be available to them free of charge.
Instructors will need to attend quarterly instructor trainings that focus on best-practices in teaching and designing courses (CEU eligible). They will also report specific program data. Program data will be tracked on annual instructor enrollment, annual student enrollment and graduation per instructor, individual course satisfaction, and annual IBT exam take and pass rates. Instructors will also provide course improvement feedback. Initially this project is planned for five years, with the long term goal of enabling instructors to become independent ACPs and deliver their own IBT courses.
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