Do More Boys than Girls Have Reading Problems?

Autor/inn/en	Wheldall, Kevin; Limbrick, Lisa
Titel	Do More Boys than Girls Have Reading Problems?
Quelle	In: Journal of Learning Disabilities, 43 (2010) 5, S.418-429 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2194
DOI	10.1177/0022219409355477
Schlagwörter	Females; Foreign Countries; Grade 5; Gender Differences; Reading Difficulties; Grade 3; Elementary School Students; Reading Achievement; Low Achievement; Incidence; Age Differences; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Geschlechterkonflikt; Reading difficulty; Leseschwierigkeit; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Leseleistung; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Vorkommen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Australien
Abstract	There is controversy within the research literature concerning the relative prevalence of reading problems in boys and girls. The authors report findings from very large and very representative samples of Australian students. Data from the New South Wales "Basic Skills Test" (BST) for reading, administered annually to third and fifth grade students in New South Wales schools, were analyzed for 1997 to 2006. Poor readers were defined as students who scored in the lowest BST bands, Bands 1 and 2. Average boy/girl ratios for third-grade students were 1.66:1 (Band 1) and 1.44:1 (combined Bands 1 and 2) and for fifth grade students were 2.26:1 (Band 1) and 1.99:1 (combined Bands 1 and 2). The findings of this study confirm earlier research that more boys than girls experience reading problems, but these differences in incidence may be more modest than previous research has suggested. (Contains 4 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10