Research Report: Sleep Quality and Academic Performance in KSA

This report investigates the impact of sleep quality on the educational performance of college students in Saudi Arabia, addressing the research question of how sleep quality affects academic outcomes. The study highlights the significance of sleep for learning, decision-making, memory, and critical thinking, noting that sleep deprivation is common among university students, leading to potential health risks and diminished performance. The research emphasizes that poor sleep patterns contribute to sleepiness and negatively impact emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and academic performance. It also mentions that approximately 70% of university students in Saudi Arabia experience poor sleep quality. The chosen research process involves qualitative methods such as interviews and surveys to gather authentic primary data, enabling the analysis of sleep patterns and their correlation with students' activeness and ability to cope with educational sessions. This approach is deemed effective for identifying patterns across a large population within a short timeframe and with fewer expenses.

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Answer 1
To understand the effect of sleep pattern on the educational performance of the university
students, a research process, which has the ability to access and analyze a large number of
students were required so that reliable and validate data could be generated (McCusker &
Gunaydin, 2015). Conduction of surveys, interviews would be the research process selected for
this topic as it will be the authentic primary research in which direct semi-structured interviews
and surveys would be conducted (Leung, 2015). In this process, several question, regarding their
sleep pattern, their level of activeness, their ability to cope up with the educational session so that
effective and accurate result could be obtained (Hartas, 2015). Hence, qualitative research with
interview and survey process would be chosen as the research process, as using this, within short
time period and less expenses identified the pattern over a large population could have been
obtained (Leung, 2015).
Answer 2
As per Hartas (2015), qualitative research is the process which is used by the researcher
community to develop international theories and develop evidence based interventions for the
benefit of the world. Conducting interviews and surveys with randomly selected population, at a
given time and place, researchers would be able to understand the effect of the research aspect on
the subjects and without any difficult statistical calculations, effective and accurate data could be
obtained (McCusker & Gunaydin, 2015). Assessing the effect of sleep pattern on the university
student is a global research approach and several researches have been conducted to find out the
effect of this situation on their educational performance (Hartas, 2015). Therefore, conduction of
interviews and surveys with university level students within their university campus and

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assessing their educational outcomes would be and easy and effective research approach. Hence,
this qualitative research approach with interviews and surveys would be used to solve the
research question (Leung, 2015).

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References
Hartas, D. (Ed.). (2015). Educational research and inquiry: Qualitative and quantitative
approaches. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Leung, L. (2015). Validity, reliability, and generalizability in qualitative research. Journal of
family medicine and primary care, 4(3), 324.
McCusker, K., & Gunaydin, S. (2015). Research using qualitative, quantitative or mixed
methods and choice based on the research. Perfusion, 30(7), 537-542.