The Connection Between Sleep And One Specific Kind Of Performance

Students need a good amount of sleep to be able to focus and get through the school day. Students ability to function during school is impacted by the quantity, regularity, and quality if their sleep (Wolfson 1). The quality of sleep is not only important for the students but it is also important for the teachers. The quality of sleep affects the way students and teachers act throughout the day. Daytime sleepiness and poor sleep quality on school days in students and teachers may comprise school and work performance (De Souza 5). Since students and teachers stay up so late at night, they tend to be very tired during the day. It is important to get sleep but it is more important to get a good sleep. There is not really a point in sleeping or trying to get sleep when it is not a good sleep because no matter what students will be tired during the day. While the quality of sleep is important, so is the amount of sleep a student or teacher is getting on school nights.

There are a few factors that are essential for life such as breathing or eating, but one of the most essential factor is sleep. Even though the amount of sleep people need differs from one individual to another, the fact is that eventually everyone needs to sleep. People know the importance of sleep, but due to the increased workload and the pressure of society people are getting less sleep. As a result, there has been an increase interest on the effects lack of sleep has on the mind especially the memory of a person. Many questions arose about the relationship between sleep and memory due to the fact most high school and college students have become sleep deprived. For example, does more sleep mean higher grades?

In the article Teachers,Students and Sleep, author Dave Stuart address the effects of different qualities of sleep have on students. Stuart covers the causes for poor sleep and the consequences this can have. The author repeatedly references the work of Harvard graduate Maria Konnikova, along with Shawn Stevenson who has a bachelor's degree, thus they appear to be reliable sources. Stuart cover the negative effects of artificial light close to sleep, and the many positive effects of regularity in other activities on the sleep cycle. Dave Stuart makes his readers reevaluate how important sleep is.

PSQI, a 19-item tool, assessed self-rated sleep quality measures over the prior month, and with a score of 5 or greater associated with poor sleep. ESS, an 8-item self-rated questionnaire, evaluated the impact of subjective perceived sleepiness on daily functioning in eight different environments with a score of 9 or greater being associated with a burden of day-time sleepiness. ISI, a 7-item tool, identified the presence, rated the severity and described the impact of insomnia with a score of 10 or greater identified as positive for

The sample will consist of current University of Texas at Dallas students from different classification levels. An estimation of 80-100 surveys will be taken. Demographic collection will be collected prior to administration and will compose of age, gender, and classification level, if they are currently attend UTD, along with whom and where the participant lives.

34 college students (ages 18-27) were recruited from the general student population of the University of North Texas

The performance Triad is as it sounds made up of three separate but interchangeable parts that are intended for the military services to utilize to enhance their combat readiness. It consists of Physical Fitness, Nutrition and Sleep and I will quickly explain each aspect to give the reader an understanding of what it is. I will also explain why I believe sleep to be the most crucial and important part of the Performance Triad and lastly looking at ways to implement the Performance Triad for soldiers that are in a field environment.

Weaver from Oklahoma State University. According to the authors “the purpose of the present study was to determine if sleep deprivation and/or poor sleep quality in a sample of non-depressed university students was associated with lower academic performance” (Gilbert, Cameron. 295). The study was also made to determine the relationship between sleep deprivation, sleep quality, and academic performance (Gilbert, Cameron. 298). It was hypothesized that by the end of the study, participants who had higher levels of sleep deprivation and poorer sleep quality would have lower academic performance (as indicated by grade point average [GPA] and course incompletions—drops, withdrawals, and incompletes) than participants with little sleep deprivation and good sleep quality (Gilbert, Cameron. 298). By the end of the study, the authors discussed the results in the following narration:

In this part of the study was reported that the socio-demographic characteristics of the participants. According to this. Two hundred and twenty nine participants agreed to volunteer for this study. The sample was 33.6% male (n = 77) and 66.4% female (n =152). Students enrolled in a course during the spring semesters of 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Our sample academic grade consisted of 20.1% freshman (n = 46), 22.7% sophomore (n = 52), 31.0% junior (n = 71) and 26.2 % senior (n = 60). See Appendix A.

Many university students report poor sleep and many of them also use digital media throughout the day and before bed. The article aims to address the connection between these factors and address the issues that university students may face and how digital media use could

Random Sample: A random sample is one that fairly represents a population, as each member has an equal chance of being included. Random sampling isn’t used in Dr. Tabors research. She wished to investigate the relationship between alertness and sleep in university students, but only gave her survey to 150 freshmen in her psychology class. Each member of a university was not given an equal chance of being included in the survey, and thus isn’t a random sample. The sample that she selected would be unrepresentative of an entire American university student body.

The purpose of the study was to define night shift napping and resting strategies and to observe the benefits on sleepiness and quality of work. The variables in this study were classification of the nights as hectic or calm nights. A calm

The design of the study revolves around three variables including an independent variable, a dependent variable, and a mediation variable; where the independent variable is the average number of hours a student studies per week, the dependent variable is the average restfulness of student’s sleep, and the mediating variable is stress reaction. It is hypothesized that the average number of hours a student studies per week is associated to their positive sleep quality rating, where the higher number of hours of studying will predict a lower positive sleep quality rating. In addition, a student’s stress reaction score measured by multidimensional personality questionnaire (MPQ) standards on stress reaction factor will act as a mediator on the student’s sleep quality.

The study sampled individuals from two separate campuses filling the demographic of traditional students (ages 18-22), and non-traditional students (ages 23 and older). The first sample was derived from Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) student population.

The research was broken up into two phases. The first phase, a random sample 350 people of the student population at a large, public, university in the mid-western United States completed a one-page