Prevalence of reading failure in boys compared with girls
Psychologv in rhe Schools
Volume 31, January 1994
PREVALENCE OF READING FAILURE IN BOYS
COMPARED WITH GIRLS
JANE M. FLYNN
Cognitive Technologies, Peterson, Minnesota
MOHAMMAD HOSSEIN RAHBAR
University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse
The hypothesis that proportionately more boys than girls experience reading failure
was tested on a sample of 708 children using both test-identified and teacher-identified
criteria. Test-identified rea
