SLEEP & GPA

WE GATHERED DATA ON HOW THE AMOUNT OF SLEEP YOU GET

EACH NIGHT AFFECTED ONES ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
By: Brianna Anderson, Brianne Hendrickson, Alicia Ozuna
1. What year of study are you
currently?
• Freshman Year: 95 Students (60.13%)
• Sophomore Year: 34 Students (21.52%)
• Junior Year: 19 Students (12.03%)
• Senior Year : 6 Students (3.80%)
• Graduate Students: 4 (2.53%)
• Over half of students enrolled in EDT
are freshman.
• Less than half the students are:
sophomores, juniors, seniors, and
graduate students.
2. What college are you in?
• There are a total of 18
colleges at ASU.
• Mary Lou Fulton Teachers
College – 79 students (50%)
• College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences - 40 students
(25.3%)
• 9 other colleges make up
the other 25%
• Most students enrolled in
EDT: Education & Liberal Arts
College.
• 6 ASU colleges are not
present in this course.
3. What is your gender?

• 19.62 percent of students

classified themselves as male.
• 77.85 percent of students
classified themselves as female.
• .63 percent of students classified
themselves as other.
• 1.90 percent of student preferred
not to say.
• Roughly, 75% of the population
who took this survey were female.
• The other 25% were in the
remaining categories.
4. How many hours of sleep do you
get on a typical weekday?

• 45 Students get around 0 to 6 hours of

sleep = (28.48%)
• 104 Students get around 7 to 9 hours of
sleep =(65.82%)
• 9 students get about 10+ hours of sleep =
(5.70%)
• The average amount of sleep is
approximately 7 hours =(7.25).
• The max was 17; was definitely an outlier.
• The most common number was 7 hours.
5. What is your gpa?
• 0 to 1.0 GPA: 2 students
(1.27%)
• 1.1-2.0 GPA: 4 students
(2.53%)
• 2.1-3.0 GPA: 53 students
(33.54%)
• 3.1 to 4.0 GPA: 97
students (61.39%)
• 4.1 to 5.0 GPA: 2 students
(1.27%)
• When calculating GPA,
majority of the students
fall between having a 3.1
to 4.0.
Relationship Between Gender and
Hours of Sleep
• Females sleep more
• All students that sleep 10+
are female
• Females have greatest #
(81) of students that sleep 7-
9 hours
• More students that prefer
not to say gender sleep less
than 6 hours
Colleges at ASU and the differences
of Hours of Sleep
• Most Teacher College and
Liberal Art’s students get 7-9
hours
• Liberal Arts college has the
highest number of students
sleeping more than 10 hours
• Most students in each
college get 7-9 hours of
sleep except:
• College of Integrative
Sciences and Arts
• Herberger Institute for
Design and the Arts
• College of Public
Service and Community
Solutions=tied
GPA and Hours of Sleep
• 84 students that sleep 7-9 hours
a day have a GPA between
3.1-4.0
• Most students that sleep 10+
hours have a GPA of 3.1-4.0
• 1/3 students that got a GPA
from 2.1-3.0 get less <6 hours
• Most students that get 7-9
hours of sleep have a GPA >
3.1
• Heathy sleep= greater GPA
Discussion!
◦ Females get more sleep than Males or
other genders
◦ The average number of hours students
sleep is 7
◦ The majority of students that sleep 7-10+
hours have a GPA from 3.1-5.0
◦ Liberal Arts College has the majority of
students that sleep 10+
◦ Healthy sleep habits helps GPA
 Resources
◦ https://www.american.edu/cas/wgss/ (GENDER)
https://www.american.edu/cas/wgss/images/wgss-people-desktop-1709.jpg
◦ http://myfrenchphysio.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/man-sleeping-on-desk-
500.jpg (AMOUNT OF SLEEP) http://myfrenchphysio.london/physio-myth-buster/physio-
myth-buster-how-to-sleep-well/
◦ https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa16/files/2016/12/poor-report-card-because-of-poor-sleep-
2076wtj-300x197.png (GPA VS> HOURS OF SLEEP)
https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa16/2016/12/01/does-the-amount-of-sleep-you-get-affect-
your-gpa/