Demand for behavior-analytic services has greatly increased in recent years, resulting in the development of many new graduate training programs. The purpose of the present study was to identify frequently assigned readings from the course syllabi of behavior-analytic training programs with the highest pass rates on the Board Certified Behavior Analyst® (BCBA®) examination. The readings are categorized by curriculum area (e.g., ethics, behaviorism, singlesubject research methodology) to provide a resource for new program development and language translation efforts.

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are taught conditional discriminations often during early intervention. Auditory-visual conditional discrimination (AVCD) training requires the presentation of multiple antecedent stimuli, and the order of stimulus presentation varies in the literature. This series of studies replicated previous literature on stimulus-presentation order in AVCD training. In Experiment 1, we compared sample-first and comparisons-first arrangements in 8 comparisons with 4 participants with ASD. For 3 participants, both presentations were efficacious. For 1 participant, the sample-first order was more likely to be efficacious. In Experiment 2, we added a sample-first-with-repetition arrangement and conducted 6 comparisons with 5 participants with ASD. Across comparisons, all 3 presentations were efficacious. Considerations for teaching AVCD to children with ASD and suggestions for further evaluation and examination of efficacy and efficiency are discussed.

This study assessed the association of biological markers, including cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides, ApoA‐1, and ApoB, with estimates of the body composition, including the conicity index (CI), BMI, bioelectrical impedance analysis, and the waist‐to‐hip ratio (WHR). One hundred‐twenty‐six African American adults (43‐males, 83‐females) from a public housing community in the District of Columbia were recruited. Females were four times more likely to be obese than were males. Among the four anthropometric indicators, the WHR was the best method to explain the variances in biological markers, including cholesterol and ApoB levels in females. The CI showed relationships with log triglyceride levels in females, while percentage body fat (%BF) explained the variances of log HDL and log ApoA‐1 in males. For cholesterol, log triglycerides and ApoB, mean values were positively associated with tertiles of the WHR, whereas mean values of log HDL and log ApoA‐1 were negatively associated with tertiles of %BF. The WHR and CI, indicators of relative body fat distribution, are more related to risk factors for CVD and diabetes among females than is the BMI. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 10:249–258, 1998. © 1998 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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