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To date no known study has (a) evaluated the effectiveness of shaping skills training to preservice behaviour analyst or (b) attempted to teach these skills in virtual environment format. We used an AB design across participants with three preservice behaviour analysts to learn shaping skills in a virtual reality environment using the PORTL curriculum. The shaping skills comprised creating a teaching plan, setting up for a session, delivering reinforcement, and evaluating a session. For all participants, training resulted in improvement in shaping skills. Participants also maintained the shaping skills for a minimum of two weeks. Further, the effect of the training generalized to a novel learner for all participants. 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