White teachers are more likely to attribute a Black boy’s behavior to ADHD and to rate those behaviors as severe than are Black parents, according to a new study published in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
White teachers are more likely to attribute a Black boy’s behavior to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and to rate those behaviors as severe than are Black parents, according to a new study published in the. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Massachusetts, demonstrated that White teachers are more likely to ascribe Black boys’ behavior to ADHD and to assign them higher scores on the Vanderbilt Assessment Scale for ADHD than are Black parents.
Study participants — 71 Black parents, 60 White teachers, and 65 White parents — were shown 11 one-minute video clips of anonymous boys and girls of different ethnicities in their preschool, kindergarten, second grade, and third grade classrooms. For each video, the parents and educators were asked to focus on one specific child, rate that child’sbehaviors according to the Vanderbilt Assessment Scale, and rate that child’s likelihood of having ADHD on a 6-point Likert Scale.
White teachers’ ratings for Black girls, and for White students of both genders, were also higher than were Black parents’ ratings for the same children, however the difference in scores was most stark for Black boys. The researchers did not attribute these rating discrepancies to one single cause, but rather suggested that the following influencing factors require more study:
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