PBIS Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs) 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which team member is primarily responsible for ensuring a BIP is implemented with fidelity across all settings?
- The student's homeroom teacher
- The school psychologist who wrote the plan
- The entire IEP team with shared accountability (Correct answer)
- The behavior interventionist assigned to the case
Correct answer: The entire IEP team with shared accountability
BIP implementation fidelity is a shared responsibility of the entire IEP team, not any single individual.
Question 2: A student's BIP includes a replacement behavior of raising their hand instead of calling out. This is an example of teaching a behavior that serves the same:
- Topography
- Function (Correct answer)
- Frequency
- Intensity
Correct answer: Function
Replacement behaviors must serve the same function as the problem behavior to be effective and sustainable.
Question 3: When a BIP specifies that staff should 'provide a 5-minute break after every 20 minutes of work,' this is an example of a:
- Consequence-based strategy
- Antecedent modification (Correct answer)
- Crisis intervention protocol
- Data collection procedure
Correct answer: Antecedent modification
Providing scheduled breaks before problem behavior occurs is an antecedent modification that prevents the behavior.
Question 4: A BIP review shows the problem behavior has decreased by 80% over 6 weeks. What is the most appropriate next step?
- Immediately discontinue the BIP
- Maintain current strategies and plan for fading supports (Correct answer)
- Write a new BIP with higher expectations
- Transfer the student to a less restrictive setting
Correct answer: Maintain current strategies and plan for fading supports
Successful BIPs should include a plan to systematically fade supports while maintaining gains before discontinuation.
Question 5: Which of the following is a limitation of using only frequency data to measure BIP progress?
- Frequency is too difficult to collect reliably
- It doesn't capture duration or intensity of behaviors (Correct answer)
- Frequency data cannot be graphed
- It only works for low-rate behaviors
Correct answer: It doesn't capture duration or intensity of behaviors
Frequency data alone misses important dimensions like how long a behavior lasts or how severe each episode is.
Question 6: A BIP that relies heavily on extinction (ignoring attention-maintained behavior) should include a warning that behavior may initially:
- Extinguish immediately
- Increase before decreasing (extinction burst) (Correct answer)
- Transfer to a different function
- Become automatically reinforced
Correct answer: Increase before decreasing (extinction burst)
Extinction bursts are predictable temporary increases in behavior when reinforcement is withheld, and teams must be prepared.
Question 7: A student's BIP states: 'When Marcus begins to yell, staff will calmly redirect him to the quiet corner.' This component describes the:
- Antecedent strategy
- Reinforcement schedule
- Response/consequence strategy (Correct answer)
- Replacement behavior instruction
Correct answer: Response/consequence strategy
Staff actions taken after a behavior occurs are consequence or response strategies within the BIP.
PBIS Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs) 2
Which team member is primarily responsible for ensuring a BIP is implemented with fidelity across all settings?