Does bad sleeping habits result in poor academic success?

Does bad sleeping habits result in poor academic success?

    “Results indicate that higher math scores were related to greater sleep quality, less awakenings and increased sleep efficiency. Higher English and history scores were associated with less difficulty awakening. Increased sleep-onset latency over the weekend was associated with worse academic performance.” (Better Sleep Is Associated With Improved Academic Success, 2009, paragraph 1). This proves that sleep is very important in school. I’m going to be talking about why bad sleeping habits result in poor academic success. I’m also going to talk about how many people have bad sleeping habits and some solutions to result in excellent academic success.
    The answer is yes, bad sleeping habits do result in poor academic success because for example, let’s say you have been working all night at an assignment and you get very little sleep. Then in the morning, you would be mostly likely tired and by the time you get to class, you are asleep. Not a lot of people sleep early before everyone else and wake up early as stated in the article, Larks and Owls: How Sleep Habits Affect Grades. “There are at least a few in every college dorm: students who seem to exist in their own time zone, in bed hours before everyone else and awake again at daybreak, rested and prepared for the morning's first lecture.” (Larks and Owls: How Sleep Habits Affect Grades, 2009, paragraph 1).
      From the National Parenting Center website, it does a survey on students about their sleep habits and various health problems. “In a series of six recently-published articles, the relationship
between children’s performance in school and various health problems was examined. In each of these articles, the authors reviewed numerous published research studies to look for patterns. Of all the health problems investigated, poor sleep was among the most unexpected and definitive causes of poor academic achievement.” (The National Parenting Center, 2004, paragraph 2). According to this paragraph, we can confirm that students not getting enough sleep will most likely do badly in school because we can assume that they are tired.
      Sleep researchers refer to these early risers as larks (midnight-oil-burners are known as owls), and new data presented this week at the annual Associated Professional Sleep Societies suggest that a student's preferred sleeping schedule has a lot to do with his or her grade-point average in school. In one study, psychologists at Hendrix College in Arkansas found that college freshmen who kept night-owl hours had lower GPAs than early birds. Another group at the University of Pittsburgh revealed that poor sleep habits among high-schoolers led to lower grades, particularly in math. (Larks and Owls: How Sleep Habits Affect Grades, 2009, paragraph 2). As we see here, students preferred sleeping schedule depends on their grade average because if you have a low grade average, then you might want to stay up studying all night. For this reason, students tend to get a lack of sleep.
      “Poor sleep patterns-of all the health problems studied, poor sleep was determined to be both the most unexpected and the most definitive cause contributing to poor academic achievement. It has been said that the majority of school age children require a minimum of nine hours restful sleep each night. Studies indicated that due to late bedtimes and early wake-up alarms, more than 40% of pre-adolescents and adolescents do not get sufficient amounts of restorative sleep.” (Reasons Why Students’ Academic Performance May Be Impacted, 2011, paragraph 10). This proves that the reason that students are not getting enough sleep is that they often have assignments or have procrastinated on important homework assignments and therefore, they have to stay late at night to finish it.
     In conclusion, bad sleeping habits do result in poor academic success because again, students have late night parties, procrastinated on assignments, or have too much assignments on one day and have to finish it all at night time. In general, sleeping habits do affect a majority of a students academic success and should be discontinued.

Reference list

College Student Journal; Sep2011, Vol. 45 Issue 3, p481-492, 12p retrieved at Ebscohost. 

Better Sleep Is Associated With Improved Academic Success. (2009). Retrieved April 06, 2012, from ScienceDaily website, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090610091232.htm

Taras, Howard. (2004). Poor Sleep, Poor Grades. Retrieved April 06, 2012, from The National Parenting Center website, http://www.tnpc.com/Readers_Corner/Poor%20Sleep,%20Poor%20Grades.htm   

Park, Alice. (2009). Larks and Owls: How Sleep Habits Affect Grades. Retrieved April 07, 2012, from Time Health website, http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1903838,00.html

Andrews, Tristan. (2011). Reasons Why Students’ Academic Performance May Be Impacted. Retrieved April 07, 2012, from ArticleSnatch website, http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Reasons-Why-Students--Academic-Performance-May-Be-Impacted/922909