Sleeping patterns on school-going children
Sleep is essential, regular sleeping patterns, for that matter. Medical reports have documented that enough sleep boosts the body’s immunity, hence overall health, besides improving an individual’s levels of productivity. With the most common sleeping disorder being insomnia, others are sleeping sickness and night terrors. This paper, therefore, focuses on teens and sleep. How does sleep contribute to a student’s success in their academics? Is there a correlation, either direct or indirect?
The three articles used for this research have immensely contributed and deeply engaged my topic of research, the effects of sleeping habits on teenagers’ success academically. Moulin Kerry’s article: Technology trumping sleep: impact of electronic media and sleep in late adolescent students centers its focus on internet use and how this affects sleeping patterns to school-going adolescents. A secured online survey tool was used on 89 participants from the age bracket of 16-25. This study concluded that internet use had adverse effects on learner’s sleeping patterns due to insomnia. This further negatively affected the performance in school.
Additionally, Urilla et al. jumps into the bandwagon with their article; Sleep habits, academic performance, and the adolescent brain structure. This article aimed at studying the effects of irregular sleep patterns on the regional brain grey matter. It is important to understand that the brain grey matter is responsible for decision making, seeing, hearing, memory, and a whole lot of functions. Two hundred and sixty-five young learners were part of this study, which took the multi-site longitudinal approach. Both the epidemiological and experimental results revealed that lack of sleep had unpropitious effects on the academic performance besides putting school going children at risk, health-wise. The same case to Zeek et al., in their article on sleep duration and academic performance. The study used questionnaires in collecting data where the conclusion was that students who slept longer, a night before exams, achieved high scores in their tests.
Therefore the above articles extensively responded to my topic of research. For example, Moulin’s article focused on the internet and the use of social media platforms during the night as the cause of insomnia and, therefore, lack of sleep, this adversely affected the student’s performance at school. Besides, Urilla et al. went deeper to discuss the brain’s grey matter and effects on it when deprived of enough sleep on academic performance.
This research will help a great deal in studying the performance patterns of school-going children who have unlimited access to the internet at night and their academic success. Besides, it will help in evaluating the lack of sleep on the brain’s grey matter hence the memory.
Based on this line of thinking, my research question will be, what are the effects of irregular sleeping patterns on school-going children?
References
Moulin, K. (2015, March). Technology trumping sleep: impact of electronic media and sleepv late adolescent students. In Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 999-1001). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Urrila, A. S., Artiges, E., Massicotte, J., Miranda, R., Vulser, H., Bézivin-Frere, P., … & Garavan, H. (2017). Sleep habits, academic performance, and the adolescent brain structure. Scientific reports, 7, 41678.
Zeek, M. L., Savoie, M. J., Song, M., Kennemur, L. M., Qian, J., Jungnickel, P. W., & Westrick, S. C. (2015). Sleep duration and academic performance among student pharmacists. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 79(5).