Sleep for college students is of utmost importance for academic performance. This study will aim to determine the relationship between the length of sleep for college students and their grade point average. It is important to include sleep deprivation in our experience when we discuss the length of sleep for college students.
Per a previous study, Lowry, M., Dean, K., & Manders, K. (2010), sleep deprivation means having less than five hours of sleep from the previous night. Sleep deprivation diminishes academic performance of students because it directly affects the cognitive and motor processes. Buboltz, Brown, and Soper (2001), as cited in Lowry, M., Dean, K., & Manders, K. (2010), reported that 15% of college students are unsatisfied with …show more content…
The email requested the assistance of the recipient to participate in a survey and thus provided a website link to a Google survey system that include the …show more content…
An example question from the survey is, “On average, how much sleep do you get on weeknights?” to which participants responded by selecting, “3 or less hours of sleep, 4 to 6 hours of sleep, 7 to 9 hours of sleep, 10 or more hours of sleep.” The researchers for this study probed the question of what their overall college grade point average (GPA) was and how many hours of sleep they receive on a week night to account for abnormalities in weekend sleep schedules. For the grade point average data, participants filled in the blank for their GPA in the survey system. The GPA was calculated, representing the average of the student’s grades during the term on a 4.0 scale. For the sleep quantity data, participants entered their responses by selecting intervals that included 3 or less hours of sleep, 4 to 6 hours of sleep, 7 to 9 hours of sleep, or 10 or more hours of
Per a previous study, Lowry, M., Dean, K., & Manders, K. (2010), sleep deprivation means having less than five hours of sleep from the previous night. Sleep deprivation diminishes academic performance of students because it directly affects the cognitive and motor processes. Buboltz, Brown, and Soper (2001), as cited in Lowry, M., Dean, K., & Manders, K. (2010), reported that 15% of college students are unsatisfied with …show more content…
The email requested the assistance of the recipient to participate in a survey and thus provided a website link to a Google survey system that include the …show more content…
An example question from the survey is, “On average, how much sleep do you get on weeknights?” to which participants responded by selecting, “3 or less hours of sleep, 4 to 6 hours of sleep, 7 to 9 hours of sleep, 10 or more hours of sleep.” The researchers for this study probed the question of what their overall college grade point average (GPA) was and how many hours of sleep they receive on a week night to account for abnormalities in weekend sleep schedules. For the grade point average data, participants filled in the blank for their GPA in the survey system. The GPA was calculated, representing the average of the student’s grades during the term on a 4.0 scale. For the sleep quantity data, participants entered their responses by selecting intervals that included 3 or less hours of sleep, 4 to 6 hours of sleep, 7 to 9 hours of sleep, or 10 or more hours of