P4- Plan a research project- In year 12
and 13, are sixth form students sleep
deprived?
Background Knowledge
Many parents are concerned that
their children, especially teenagers,
are sleep deprived. There is a
natural worry that teens are
sabotaging their current school
performance and future
opportunities for educational
success by sleeping too little.
Few Teenagers don't
get recommended
amount of sleep
Older teens who sleep 7
hours a night tend to have
the highest test scores
Teens who sleep less than 6
hours a night or more than 11
hours tend to do poorly on
tests.
National recommendations in the
U.S. are that children and teens
should get 9.:25 hours of sleep a
night
Reasons why i'm conducting
I want to find out if sleep
deprivation effects concertration
and the ablity to do well at
school.
does it effect health issues later
in life? or already suffer because
of sleep deprivation
More sleep give you
better grades
Why does your sleep
depreviaton occur?
How?
Questionniares
Self completion
questionaire
Open
Why?
user satisfaction
with collections and
services
relevance of collections and services to
user needs
trends (by repetition over time).
Interviews
Interview consisting of
open questions
Why?
Investigates
issues in an depth
way
discover how
individuals think
and feel about a
topic and why
they hold
certain opinions
deepen
understanding and
explain statistical
data
Trinagulation
Year 12 and 13
questionnaire followed up
by an interview and
possibly a focus group
Why?
A weakness in one method could
be avoided by using a second
method that is strong in the area
that the first is weak.