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Performance in Class
12ABM-5
Researchers:
Angel Feliz Figueroa
Mijie Lou Baluyot
Carleen Joi Macapagal
Ivy Corine Alambra
Marinela Macapagal
Chapter I
The Problem
Sleep is an important biological necessity that all people need
to maintain a healthy lifestyle. It helps people work at an optimum
level and is critical for brain functioning, helping with all the cognitive
functions such as memory, learning, decision making, and critical
thinking. This makes sleep extremely important for academic
performance (Gilbert & Weaver, 2010). Sleep deprivation increases the
likelihood teens will suffer myriad negative consequences, including
inability to concentrate, poor grades, and depression. Sleep
deprivation has an impact negatively on a wide range of cognitive,
behavioral, physiological, and emotional measures. For example, mood
changes including irritability, fatigue, and disorientation to short-term
memory alterations due to decreased attention, and decreased
motivation. Systematic studies of total sleep deprivation have revealed
some temporary cognitive deficits but no permanent effects.
The reasons for students sleep deprivation are
many, including wide range of social, cultural,
environmental, and biological factors (e.g., personal
interest and problems; involvement with
extracurricular activities; academic demands; and
living conditions that interfere with sleep).
Academics are common motivator for students
sleep loss. Students who are sleep deprived because
of academic often stay up late at night and wake up
early especially during exams. A recent study
conducted with the students proves that low amount
of sleep correlates with negative academic
performance (Curcio, Ferrara, & De Gennalo, 2006).
Research Question
The study aims to determine the effects of sleep
deprivation on students’ performance in class. More
specifically, it seeks to answer the following questions:
1. What are the effects of hours of sleep in
performance of the students in class?
2. Is there a significant difference in the exam and
recitation of students with
a. less hours of sleep; and
b. appropriate hours of sleep?
3. Is there a significance difference between less and
appropriate hours of sleep on students’ performance?
Research Hypothesis
Local Studies
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Yes No
The graph above shows that 90% of the participants feel that they sleep
deprived as a Senior High and 10% is not.
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0.9
Yes No
The graph shows that 90% of the respondents find it harder to stay awaked or
focused during class hours in the day that they did not get sufficient sleep the
night before and the other 10% of the respondents did not find it harder.
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0.9
Yes No
The graph shows that 90% of the participants feel that they have less energy
or motivation throughout the day when they don’t have enough sleep and
the 10% is not.
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When asked, “How often would you say stress interferes with your ability to
fall asleep/sleep through the night?” almost half of the participants which is
the 45% answered often, 35% answered somewhat often, 15% of the
participants answered very often and 5% answered not often.
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When then asked what factors diminish the quality or quantity of their sleep.
This graph show that 40% of the participants answered that the factors that
diminish their quantity of their sleep it is because they are lack of
management skills and 30% answered it is because they are doing their
homework and 25% of them answered that it is because they are not tired at
night and the 5% answered it is because they are socializing with their
friends.
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Yes No
The graph shows that 80% of the participants feel that their academic
performance is hindered due to insufficient sleep and 20% of them answered
not.
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0 to 10 10 to 15 15 plus
This graph shows that 40% of the participants answered that 0-10 hours they study
per week, 30% answered 10-15 hours and 30% of them answered 15 and above.
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Yes No
This graph shows that in the total of a 100% of participants, half of them
answered yes and the other half answered no.
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Yes No
This graph shows that most of the respondents which is the 55% answered that
they suffer from a sleep disorder like insomnia, sleep apnea, etc. and 45% of
them answered that they don’t suffer from a sleep disorder.
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0.1 0.1
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This graph shows that almost the 100% of the participant which is the 80%
answered that the factors why they don’t sleep early at night is because
they browsing/surfing to the internet and 10% of them answered they do
their homework at night and 10% answered they can’t fall asleep.
PM SHIFT
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Yes No
The graph above shows that 65% of the participants feel that they sleep
deprived as a Senior High and 35% is not.
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0.15
0.85
Yes No
The graph shows that 85% of the respondents find it harder to stay awaked
or focused during class hours in the day that they did not get sufficient
sleep the night before and the other 15% of the respondents did not find it
harder.
Chart Title
0.15
0.85
Yes No
The graph shows that 85% of the participants feel that they have less
energy or motivation throughout the day when they don’t have enough
sleep and the 15% is not.
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0.25
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When asked, “How often would you say stress interferes with your ability to fall
asleep/sleep through the night?” almost half of the participants which is the 25%
answered often, 40% answered somewhat often, 10% of the participants answered
very often and 25% answered not often.
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0.15
0.3
0.05
0.5
When then asked what factors diminish the quality or quantity of their
sleep. This graph show that 15% of the participants answered that the
factors that diminish their quantity of their sleep it is because they are
lack of management skills and 50% answered it is because they are
doing their homework and 30% of them answered that it is because
they are not tired at night and the 5% answered it is because they are
socializing with their friends.
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0.2
0.8
Yes No
The graph shows that 80% of the participants feel that their academic
performance is hindered due to insufficient sleep and 20% of them
answered not.
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0.25
0.6 0.15
0 to 10 10 to 15 15 plus
This graph shows that 25% of the participants answered that 0-10 hours
they study per week, 15% answered 10-15 hours and 60% of them
answered 15 and above.
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0.8
Yes No
This graph shows that in the total of a 100% of participants, almost all the
participants which is 80% answered yes and 20% of them answered no.
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Yes No
This graph shows that most of the respondents which is the 60% answered
that they suffer from a sleep disorder like insomnia, sleep apnea, etc. and
40% of them answered that they don’t suffer from a sleep disorder.
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0.1
0.15
0.75
This graph shows that almost the 100% of the participant which is the
75% answered that the factors why they don’t sleep early at night is
because they browsing/surfing to the internet and 10% of them
answered they do their homework at night and 15% answered they can’t
fall asleep.
Chapter V
SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
Summary
Proving if Sleep Deprivation can really affect the
students’ performance in class. Adequate Sleep is a biological
necessity, not a luxury for the normal functioning of human.
Good mental and physical health depends on maintenance of
adequate sleep.
The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that
contribute to the students sleep deprivation and to know the
effects of sleep loss to students’ performance in class with
different schedule.
The researchers used quantitative and descriptive
method to describe the effects of sleep deprivation on students’
performance. The main instrument that we used is
questionnaire designed as close-ended question. The
researchers choose 40 students from morning and afternoon
shift.
The results of this study show that the students are
experiencing sleep deprivation. Most of the students find it harder
to stay awake/focused during their class. The students feel that
they have less energy and motivation when they sleep deprived.
Almost half of our participants said that the stress interferes with
their ability to fall asleep. Main factors that diminish to the quality
or quantity of the students’ sleep are late studying at night and lack
of time management skills. According to our survey, it is prove that
the academic performance of the students are hindered due to
sleep loss. The students only spend 10-15 hours to study. Some
students are experiencing sleep disorder that affect to their ability
to fall asleep. Main factors that the students sleep deprived is
surfing/browsing to the internet.
Conclusion
We conclude that most of the students are experiencing sleep
deprivation as a Senior High though they are aware of the damaging
effects of sleep deprivation on their academic performance. Students
tend to have less energy and motivation throughout the day when they
have less sleep than needed the night before. Stress also interferes
with their ability to fall asleep through the night. Most factors that
diminish the quality or quantity of the student to fall asleep late at
night are lack of time management and late up studying or doing
homework. Students spend only 0 to 10 hours of working studying per
week. The school workload also has an impact to few students whose
suffering from less sleep. Sleep disorder (insomnia, sleep apnea, etc) is
also a factor that affects the students to sleep deprived. Students don’t
sleep early at night because they are surfing/browsing the internet.
Recommendation
There are few limitations that prevented this research from having optimal
results. Future studies should try to understand the physical effects such as cognitive
ability in more detail than displayed in this study. Future researchers should ask
participants to perform a cognitive task and compare their results to their average sleep
of hours per night. This paper talked about looking at students’ majors to determine if
there is a correlation between certain major and sleep deprivation. Future researchers
should ask students about their areas of study and compare it to the average hours of
sleep they get per night. Another suggestion for future researcher is to conduct the
surveys in various formats. Both online and paper methods were successful. However,
future researcher should consider using a paper formatted survey because students can
ask questions for clarification if survey facilitators are present during the paper format
survey distribution. Online survey distribution removes the possibility of the 1:1
interaction that is more possible with distributing the paper format. This may result in
more accurate data response. Future researcher should conduct this study in various
groups outside of classes and social media, survey facilitators should look towards
approaching randomized groups on campus. And lastly, future researchers should look
to distribute this survey to multiple schools, this way more people can theoretically take
it and more variance in data would enhance the data quality.