Research proposal– The paper should be formatted per current APA and 8-10 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract, and references page. Incorporate a minimum of 5 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.
- Research question: How sleep quality affects academic performance in college students.
- Explain how sleep quality affects academic performance; academic performance measured by GPA
- Evaluating and measuring other aspects like attention, memory (cognitive function) and emotional wellbeing (anxiety, depression) and evaluating sleep quality can affect these factors, thus affecting academic performance.
IV: sleep quality
DV: academic performance
*Abstract included at end of doc attachment, use abstract provided*
- Measures:
- How to measure sleep quality: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)
- Find assessments to measure the following: memory, attention, anxiety and depression
References to use:
Qu, G., Liu, H., Han, T., Zhang, H., Ma, S., Sun, L., Qin, Q., Chen, M., Zhou, X., & Sun, Y. (2024). Association between adverse childhood experiences and sleep quality, emotional and behavioral problems and academic achievement of children and adolescents. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, (33), 527–538. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02185-w
Association between sleep duration and quality and depressive symptoms among university students: A cross-sectional study https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238811
Hirshkowitz, M., Whiton, K., Albert, S. M., et al. (2015). National Sleep Foundation’s sleep time duration recommendations: Methodology and results summary. Sleep Health, 1(1), 40-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2014.12.010
Sleep quality and sleep deprivation: relationship with academic performance in university students during examination period https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10900033/
Sleep and human cognitive development
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8164994/
Use the following outline to guide the paper:
1. Introduction
- Explain the issue you are examining and why it is significant
- Describe the general area to be studied
- Explain why this area is important to the general area under study (e.g., psychology of language, second language acquisition, teaching methods)
2. Background/Review of the Literature
- A description of what has already known about this area and short discussion of why the background studies are not sufficient
- Summarize what is already known about the field. Include a summary of the basic background information on the topic gleaned from your literature review (you can include information from the book and class, but the bulk should be outside sources)
- Discuss several critical studies that have already been done in this area (cite according to APA style).
- Point out why these background studies are insufficient. In other words, what question(s) do they leave unresolved that you would like to study?
- Choose (at least) one of these questions you might like to pursue yourself. (Make sure you do not choose too many questions)
3. Rationale
- A description of the questions you are examining and an exploration of the claims.
- List the specific question(s) that you are exploring.
- Explain how these research questions are related to the larger issues raised in the introduction.
- Describe what specific claim, hypothesis, and/or model of psycholinguistics you will evaluate with these questions.
- Explain what it will show about the psychology of language if your hypothesis is confirmed.
- Explain what it will suggest about the psychology of language if your hypothesis is disconfirmed.
4. Method and Design
- A description of how you would go about collecting data and test the questions you are examining. You are not required to come up with a new or original method. Look up journal articles to determine what methods are standardly used to assess knowledge of language in your chosen area and adapt one of these for your needs.
Method: How would you collect the data and why?:
- Describe the general methodology you choose for your study, in order to test your hypothesis(es).
- Explain why this method is the best for your purposes.
Participants: Who would you test and why?
- Describe the sample you would test and explain why you have chosen this sample. Include age, and language background and socio-economic information, if relevant to the design.
- Are there any participants you would exclude? Why, why not?
Design:
- What would the stimuli look like and why?
- Describe what kinds of manipulations/variations you would make or test for in order to test your hypothesis(es).
- Describe the factors you would vary if you were presenting a person with stimulus sentences.
- Explain how varying these factors would allow you to confirm or disconfirm your hypotheses.
- Explain what significant differences you would need to find to confirm or disconfirm your hypothesis(es). In particular, how could your hypothesis(es) be disconfirmed by your data?
- Controls: What kinds of factors would you need to control for in your study?
- Describe what types of effects would be likely to occur which would make your results appear to confirm, or to disconfirm your hypothesis(es).
Procedure:
- How are you going to present the stimuli?
- What is the participant in the experiment going to do?
Analysis:
- How will you analyze the results?
- What kind of results would confirm your hypothesis?
- What kind of results would disconfirm your hypothesis
5. Significance and Conclusion
- Discuss, in general, how your proposed research would lead to a significant improvement over the original studies, and how it would benefit the field. (In other words, why should someone care? If you were applying for money to do this, why would someone fund you? If you wanted to publish your results, why would they be interesting?)
6. References
Include all references in APA style.
