Scope and limitation

This research is limited to determine the effects between having enough sleep and sleep
deprivation on the Academic Performance of the grade 11 students. The researchers
respondents will be the grade 11 students. This research will be conducted from the month of
December 2019 to March of 2020 at Antipolo City Senior High school.

Background of the Study

Sleep must substantiate to the waking hours of a person; it is necessary for individuals to have
enough sleep. Having enough sleep may significantly affect the mental function of the students’
performance during examinations. Sleep must directly correlate with the mood, physical, and mental
functioning of a person. Most often, cognitive ability becomes insufficient when students sleep less than
seven hours a day (Zeek et al., 2015). Lowry et al. (2010) express that students must maintain and stay
motivated to have a healthy sleep routine together with academic success. A healthy sleep pattern as
suggested by the researchers will improve their grades.

The lack of sleep negatively impacts the day activities, particularly performance in school. This
includes off-task behavior, drowsiness, irritability, and lack of focus (Meijer et al., 2000). This is further
verified in a study by Stanford that the consequences of sleep deprivation include lack of concentration,
poor grades, anxiety, depression (Richter, 2015).

High school life can be stressful but most memorable experience in everyone’s life. At
this stage, a person starts to develop from childishness to early adolescence. They become
easily distracted, vulnerable to temptations and several changes. But people around them are
expecting them to excel academically more than they do when they were younger.
Nonetheless, to be clarified, the researchers have conducted a study to compare the effects
between having sleep deprivation and enough sleep in the academic performance of selected students
of Antipolo City Senior High School in order to find answers and identify the truth behind the said
peculations.

Sleep is a state on which the body and mind of an individual is relatively inactive and its muscles
are relaxed. In human body, sleep aids with all the cognitive function such as memory, learning, decision
making, and critical thinking. Sleep is also said to be a physiological adaptation to conserve energy. With
enough sleep, an individual can function better and the condition of which an individual suffers from
lack of sleep is called sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation can result to weight gain, dysfunction in
cognitive ability, and even life-threatening health risks.

Sleep is a vital and plays an important role in human systems. According to the National Sleep
Foundation (2015) an individual need to at least 7 to 10 hours of sleep to store energy and be able to
function properly. It helps people work at an ideal level and is used for critical processing of the brain.
This makes sleep necessary on academic performance. Being able to understand the impact of sleep
deprivation on academic performance will aid in comprehending the importance of sleep especially for
students to maintain a quality academic performance.

However, not everyone is getting sufficient sleep to function duly, especially students. Many
studies in the past have shown that sleep deprivation does correlate with poor academic performance
because of lower abilities in cognition as a result of poor sleep quality. In the study done by Gilbert and
Weaver (2010), the two researchers found that sleep loss interferes with a student’s academic,
extracurricular and vocational choices. Being unable to have adequate amount of sleep results to
negative outcome while having enough sleep will not only result to an individual who’s more functional
but also healthy.

In maintaining a good academic performance, an individual should also recognize factors that
can either help or hinder his goal. And as said before, sleep plays a vital role when it comes to academic
performance, a sleep deprived individual is/can be dysfunctional during day time, therefore are chances
of having low academic scores and because of experiencing sleep deprivation, and one could experience
flunking.

According to Leonidas (2014), a medical news report from America stated that school stress
keeps 68 percent of students awake after their head hits the pillow. Only 30 percent of students sleep
eight hours a night, the average recommended amount of sleep for young adults. Twenty percent of
students pull and all-nighter at least once a month. The purpose of adequate sleep is to maintain better
memory and boost learning. Sleep loss means mind loss. It restricts critical thinking, messes up memory
and mood, delays reasoning, and shutters quantitative skills. In the Philippines, Arceo-Dumlao (2014)
have said that based on the research done by Sun Life Financial Asia, almost half of the Filipinos sleep
less than six hours a day. Poor quality sleep has significant impacts on daytime behavior and academic
performance, as well as concentration attention and mood.