Yes, boys get diagnosed with AD(H)D radically more often than girls do. I think, though I cannot remember or cite statistics to this effect, that boys are actually more prone to it than girls are. I definitely remember from somewhere that boys are more prone to the ADHD version and girls to the AD-notH-D version, so boys are much more likely to be diagnosed (on the one hand possibly stigmatizing them, but on the other hand making boys more likely than girls to get help they need).
I've heard that about boys but I think individual variations swamp it. Certainly the boys I teach vary enormously in how much they want to raise their hand, and sometimes it has nothing to do with how energetic they are in the halls (even the really hyper ones can be subdued in class if they don't understand). When I was teaching coed SAT prep, girls participated a lot more -- again, because I think they tend to be more conformist, authority-oriented, and desirous to please.
Really I think you can find examples to support almost any gender-based hypothesis in education, which is why Very Large Studies are important, but they're pretty rare; the quality of most educational research is execrable.
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Date: 2006-01-26 10:15 pm (UTC)I've heard that about boys but I think individual variations swamp it. Certainly the boys I teach vary enormously in how much they want to raise their hand, and sometimes it has nothing to do with how energetic they are in the halls (even the really hyper ones can be subdued in class if they don't understand). When I was teaching coed SAT prep, girls participated a lot more -- again, because I think they tend to be more conformist, authority-oriented, and desirous to please.
Really I think you can find examples to support almost any gender-based hypothesis in education, which is why Very Large Studies are important, but they're pretty rare; the quality of most educational research is execrable.