Paper 2 Synthesis Matrix

Thesis: According to psychologists and sleep experts, poor and insufficient sleep can have dramatically negative impacts on a students’ daily functioning particularly their school performances, which may include off-task behavior, drowsiness, irritability and students’ inability to focus so adolescents should be sleeping at least 8 hours a day in order to function at their mental best.

Sleep Disordered Breathing And Daytime Sleepiness Are Associated With Poor Academic Performance In Teenagers.
(NCBI)
Does More Sleep Mean Higher Grades?
(NYTimes)
Negative impact
Sleepiness
Poor concentration
Off-task behavior
Reduction of nighttime sleep due to reduced or altered sleep schedules has been associated with excessive sleepiness and impaired school performance. For example, it is known that during adolescence, circadian phase delays are often out of phase with academic schedules producing an increased risk for sleepiness, reduced academic performance, and other significant morbidity. Physiological studies have also shown that adequate sleep may be important for the consolidation of memory which could have important implications for school success in adolescence.
(introduction)
SARA JERUSS, 17, a senior at Masuk High School in Monroe, fights to stay awake every morning during her first period physics class.
(par. 1)
''It has been my experience that coming into school later, whether it be due to delayed opening, having first period free, or simply my exhaustion from lack of sleep, improves my ability to concentrate during school and actually comprehend and absorb information,'' he said. (par. 13)
'I've seen many things written about how we're a nation of sleep-deprived workaholics, and how the sleep-deprivation causes the loss of many hours of productivity, as well as many automobile accidents,'' she said. (par. 38)

At least 8 hours of sleep a day
Several reports suggests that adolescents need more than 8 hours of sleep per night.
(introduction)
Sleep hours during the week and weekend were evaluated using Likert-scale specific questions (response options: >10 h, 8–10 h, 6–8 h, 4–6 h and <4 h).
(measurement- par.2)
He said adolescents needed about nine hours of sleep a night. Since most teenagers go to bed at 11 p.m. or later, in accordance with the adolescent brain clock, and get awakened at 6 a.m., they are going to school in the latter third of their sleep cycle, he said.
(par. 8)
Bad school performance
However, children with higher PDSS scores had lower average mathematics and language grades, suggesting sensitivity to an important real-world outcome.
(discussion – par.3 )
In poor sleepers, the risk of failing one or more years at school is double that of normal controls.
(introduction)
She often finds she has to teach herself from books on weekends, having missed the fine points of lectures while fending off fatigue.
(par. 1)

Munkhjargal Jambalsuren
Eng 102
J. Idiart
Paper 2: Synthesis Matrix