Late Night Sleeping Habit and the Academic Performance of Grade 12 Gates: A Basis for Classroom Intervention

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Sleep is an important part of a person's daily routine. It makes one ready to perform tasks for the day and make a day productive hence, enough sleep is indeed essential to feeling awake and alert, maintaining good health and working at peak performance. Apparently, in Grade 12 Gates students of Sto. Tomas Integrated High School shows poor sleeping habit i.e sleeping very late at night and tend to have poor performance in most of the subjects as initially observed by the group during the first quarter of the school year. This led the group to conduct an investigation on how the academic performance of the class is related to their late-night sleeping habit which could draw important realization on this neglected physiological undertaking of students in order for them to gain success in school.

METHODS

The study was of a descriptive type, i.e the use of a survey questionnaire served as the main tool for data gathering. The respondents of this study were Grade 12 Gates students who were observed to have poor sleeping habit during the first quarter of the school year. As to the statistical treatments used, simple mean averaging was used to determine the respondents' profile in terms of age, gender and first quarter average. And to determine the relationship of late-night sleep habit and academic performance of the respondents, Pearson Product Moment Coefficient was utilized.

RESULTS

With the data gathered and statistical treatments used, the results reveal that 58% of the respondents are 18 years old and 70% are male students. The class overall numerical performance during the first quarter of the school year is 79.5. majority of them responded to online games/social media as the main reason for their late sleep practice. The test of correlation reveals between late night sleep habit and academic performance reveals that there is a significant relationship with an r-value of .154 of and a p-value of .006 at .05 level of significance.

DISCUSSIONS

Based from the findings and conclusions drawn from the study, it strongly suggests that students' engagement to online games and social media may be one major topic for the next Parent-Teacher Conference as to make the parents aware of this and establish a mutual understanding of the role of family and school in solving this problem. Hence, class adviser, subject teachers, school administrators, and parents may craft homeroom intervention that would help Grade 12 students gain healthy sleeping habit.