This document discusses different methods for conducting preference assessments, including single stimulus, paired stimulus, multiple stimulus without replacement, and free operant assessments. It explains how to collect data for and calculate results from paired stimulus and multiple stimulus without replacement assessments. The document concludes with recommending the use of a decision making tree to choose the most appropriate preference assessment method based on a client's individual needs.

1. Table of Contents
1. Introduction to preference assessments
2. Single stimulus and paired-stimulus preference assessments
3. Paired-stimulus data collection
4. Calculating and interpreting the results of a paired-stimulus
preference assessment
5. Multiple-stimulus without replacement preference assessment
6. Multiple-stimulus without replacement data collection
7. Calculating and interpreting the results of a multiple stimulus
without replacement preference assessment
8. Free-operant preference assessment
9. Free-operant data collection
10. Calculating and interpreting the results of a free-operant
preference assessment
11. Decision making tree
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2. Table of Contents
11. Decision making tree
a) 3.01 Behavior-Analytic Assessment
b) Decision making tree

3. Professional and Ethical Compliance Code for
Behavior Analysts

4. Following the ethical compliance code
• Choosing the right assessment to conduct based on your
client’s needs is important in order to get more accurate
results.
• Scenario:
• Joel, the BCBA, wants his RBT to conduct a preference assessment. In order to
abide by the code, Joel takes his client’s needs into account to choose the right
preference assessment. To make his choice easier, he uses a decision making tree.

5. Now get ready to answer a few checkpoint
questions!