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Sleep and Its Relationship with Reading Comprehension

Sauber, Andrea

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2010, Master of Education (MEd), Bowling Green State University, Reading.

Since reading comprehension is such a critical component in all aspects of education, it is important to take into consideration all aspects of reading comprehension. Comprehension of a text takes place when the reader pays attention to the text, pulls out the pertinent information, and connects and integrates the new information to the previously stored information in the form of schemata. This is all made possible by the working memory. The working memory allows many processes to take place simultaneously. Many studies have linked decreased cognitive functions such as working memory performance and recall to a loss of sleep.

Sleep loss is a problem faced by many children in our society today. Because of the increasing responsibilities at school such as homework and extracurricular activities and the increasing amounts of technology available, children are going to bed at later times resulting in sleeping less per night. This research study was designed to determine whether there was a relationship between the hours a child sleeps at night and his or her morning and afternoon reading comprehension scores. Also, this study investigated whether there was a relationship between the regularity in the hours of sleep participants got each night and his or her morning and afternoon reading comprehension scores.

Cindy Hendricks, PhD (Committee Chair)
Mark A. Earley, PhD (Committee Member)
Sherri Horner, PhD (Committee Member)
72 p.

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  • Sauber, A. (2010). Sleep and Its Relationship with Reading Comprehension [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269030966

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sauber, Andrea. Sleep and Its Relationship with Reading Comprehension. 2010. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269030966.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sauber, Andrea. "Sleep and Its Relationship with Reading Comprehension." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269030966

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)