Macquarie University Special Education Centre, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia.
J Learn Disabil. 2010 Sep-Oct;43(5):418-29. doi: 10.1177/0022219409355477. Epub 2010 Apr 7.
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.
关于男孩和女孩阅读问题相对发生率，研究文献中存在争议。作者报告了来自澳大利亚学生的非常大且非常有代表性的样本的发现。对新南威尔士州基础技能测试（BST）的阅读数据进行了分析，该测试每年对新南威尔士州学校的三、五年级学生进行，数据来自 1997 年至 2006 年。阅读困难的学生被定义为得分最低的 BST 组（1 组和 2 组）的学生。三年级学生的男女平均比例为 1.66:1（第 1 组）和 1.44:1（第 1 组和第 2 组），五年级学生的男女比例为 2.26:1（第 1 组）和 1.99:1（第 1 组和第 2 组）。本研究的结果证实了早期的研究，即男孩比女孩更容易出现阅读问题，但发病率的这些差异可能比之前的研究表明的要小。
