The Legacy of B.F. Skinner - CE Instructor: Dr. Judah Axe
ABA Inside Track
IMPORTANT NOTICE: To earn CEUs for listening, you MUST sign up and listen to this episode to get credit. To listen for the fun of learning? Just push play! Email us at for further assistance. Sure, B.F. Skinner's work is THE keystone for everything we do in behavior analysis. But, that's all just boring "into to ABA" history, right? Well, Dr. Judah Axe, president of the , begs to differ (and we totally agree!). In this episode we discuss two of Dr. Axe's favorite writings by Skinner, from superstition to problem solving, and how so many of his analyses are still relevant to the behavior...
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Shaping - CE Instructor: Dr. Jackie MacDonald
ABA Inside Track
IMPORTANT NOTICE: To earn CEUs for listening, you MUST sign up and listen to this episode to get credit. To listen for the fun of learning? Just push play! Email us at for further assistance. In our effort to cover every topic in behavior analysis ever, we're heading back to a basic, but key, topic: shaping. Is this is your 10th review of loading the problem loader? Or have you been too scared to utilize shaping because you've never mastered the art of the approximation? This episode goes from the basic steps in teaching more complex physical behaviors all the way to the nuances of verbal...
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October 2026 Preview
ABA Inside Track
The podcast is coming out a few days early just to give you a little more time to get tickets to one (or more) of some of our favorite conference events of the year. Not enough time to book a flight, sadly. But, if you're in the area, we strongly encourage you to check out one of the options we discuss in the episode. The only thing scary about this month is how to find time to attend all of the amazing conferences, talks, and events given by some of the best minds in behavior analysis! But whether you're attending , , the latest , , or all of the above, you'll have a bunch of new...
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Who Moved My Cheese Book Club - CE Instructor: Dr. Jackie MacDonald
ABA Inside Track
IMPORTANT NOTICE: To earn CEUs for listening, you MUST sign up and listen to this episode to get credit. To listen for the fun of learning? Just push play! Email us at for further assistance. To wrap up Supervision September, ABA Inside Track tackles the classic management book "Who Moved My Cheese?" and finds the whole thing less sharp than the millions of people who bought it on Amazon. Nevertheless, your stalwart Book Club crew finds a few ways to take the tiny parable of mice and men and the search for dairy products and create definitions of change behavior in the workplace and related...
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How Good Have We Really Gotten at Supervision - CE Instructor: Dr. Amber Valentino
ABA Inside Track
IMPORTANT NOTICE: To earn CEUs for listening, you MUST sign up and listen to this episode to get credit. To listen for the fun of learning? Just push play! Email us at for further assistance. Can it really be 10 years since Sellers, Valentino, and LeBlanc laid out an amaing and actionable list of supervision activities for behavior analysts to follow? Yup, you're that much older! And while you're undoubtedly better than your younger self, could the field of supervision say the same thing? This week Dr. Amber Valentino joins us to share the growth of supervision research in ABA, the areas and...
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(SUPERVISION) Using Peer Feedback in Supervision - CE Instructors: Dr. Jackie MacDonald + Dr. Diana Parry-Cruwys
ABA Inside Track
IMPORTANT NOTICE: To earn CEUs for listening, you MUST sign up and listen to this episode to get credit. To listen for the fun of learning? Just push play! Email us at for further assistance. We spend a lot of time as supervisors using our brilliant, veteran brains to pass wisdom on to those under our supervisory purview. But does that mean that our friends and colleagues don't have anything useful to add to our learning experience? Jackie and Diana lead a discussion of what is known about utilizing peer feedback to improve learning and training outcomes. While peer feedback may have worked...
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How to Slay Your Fieldwork Dragon w/ CE Instructor: Dr. Diana Parry-Cruwys
ABA Inside Track
IMPORTANT NOTICE: To earn CEUs for listening, you MUST sign up and listen to this episode to get credit. To listen for the fun of learning? Just push play! Email us at for further assistance. Gamification adds fun, game-like components to otherwise dull, dry activities to increase motivation to engage with the task. But could it work for supervision? This episode Diana takes charge as she reviews how gamficiation can be added to the BCBA trainee practicum experience to make the basic ABA supervision activity go from fine to fabulous! Plus, the basics of the gamification process and how you...
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September Preview 2026
ABA Inside Track
Don't despair now that your summer vacation is over, because ABA Inside Track will dull the pain of the workday with the return of Supervision September! A whole month of supervision discussion and research to make you the greatest boss/mentor/leader in the world. First, we dig into the archives for a special episode released as a bonus to patrons to launch the new site in which Diana digs deep into Gamification methodology as a means to improve supervision data entry in the practicum experience. Next we turn the tables from our bosses to ourselves to see if peer feedback actually does...
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(REBROADCAST) Episode 17 - (ETHICS) Ethics in Data Collection
ABA Inside Track
IMPORTANT NOTICE: To earn CEUs for listening, you MUST sign up and listen to this episode to get credit. To listen for the fun of learning? Just push play! Email us at for further assistance. We're wrapping up the summer with a re-release of one of our most popular past episodes. If you've never heard it before, we think you'll appreciate Dr. Karsten's discussion of ethical data collection and usage. And if you listened when it aired back in 2016, it's a great time for a review! IMPORTANT NOTICE: To earn CEUs for listening, you MUST sign up and listen to this episode to get credit. To...
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Episode 353 - (LISTENER CHOICE) Legislative Policy in Behavior Analysis
ABA Inside Track
IMPORTANT NOTICE: To earn CEUs for listening, you MUST sign up and listen to this episode to get credit. To listen for the fun of learning? Just push play! Email us at for further assistance. Thanks to our awesome listeners, we're bringing ANOTHER Listener Choice episode out a bit early because folks can't wait to revisit a discussion of ABA and public policy. This time we're focusing on the licensure process for behavior analysts: How it happened, what we learned, and what comes next to ensure the health and growth of the field. Probably need to start with getting better press than some ...
info_outlineThe podcast is coming out a few days early just to give you a little more time to get tickets to one (or more) of some of our favorite conference events of the year. Not enough time to book a flight, sadly. But, if you're in the area, we strongly encourage you to check out one of the options we discuss in the episode.
The only thing scary about this month is how to find time to attend all of the amazing conferences, talks, and events given by some of the best minds in behavior analysis! But whether you're attending BABAT, the Thompson Center for Autism Conference, the latest Skinner Session, IABS's ABA in Public Schools Conference, or all of the above, you'll have a bunch of new episodes from ABA Inside Track to enjoy during your commutes. First we go back to basics with a sucessively approximate review of shaping procedures. After that, returning guest, Dr. Judah Axe, shares some of his favorite articles by B.F. Skinner and why studying from the field's OG still holds meaning in the modern day. And then we all sit criss-cross applesauce and discuss what makes for a good circle time and what do do when your circle goes pear-shaped.
So, get thee to a behavior analytic conference, after downloading our new episodes, of course. And, who knows...you might even see us there in person!
Articles for October 2026
Shaping w/ Dr. Jackie MacDonald
Ferguson, D.L. & Rosales-Ruiz, J. (2001). Loading the problem loader: The effects of target training and shaping on trailer-loading behavior of horses. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 34, 409-424. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2001.34-409
Newman, B., Reinecke, D., & Ramos, M. (2009). Is a reasonable attempt reasonable? Shaping versus reinforcing verbal attempts of preschoolers with autism. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 25, 67-72. doi: 10.1007/BF03393070
The Legacy of B.F. Skinner w/ Dr. Judah Axe
Skinner, B.F. (1984). An operant analysis of problem solving. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 583-613. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X00027412
Skinner, B.F., (1948). Superstition in the pigeon. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 38, 168-172. doi: 10.1037/0096-3445.121.3.273
Circle Time w/ Dr. Diana Parry-Cruwys
Barton, E.E., Reichow, B., Wolery, M., & Chen, C. (2011). We can all participate! Adapting circle time for children with autism. Young Exceptional Children, 14, 2-21. doi: 10.1177/1096250610393681
Seifert, A.M. & Metz, A.E. (2017). The effects of inflated seating cushions on engagement in preschool circle time. Early Childhood Education Journal, 45, 411-418. doi: 10.1007/s10643-016-0797-7
Crozier, S. & Tincani, M. (2007). Effects of social stories on prosocial behavior of preschool children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 1803-1814. doi: 10.1007/s10803-006-0315-7
Vargo, K.K., Heal, N.A., Epperley, K., & Kooistra, E. (2014). The effects of a multiple schedule plus rules on hand raising during circle time in preschool classrooms. Journal of Behavioral Education, 23, 326-343. doi: 10.1007/s10864-014-9199-3