and no screen time before bedtime, sleep workshops
and changing the school start time. This paper
recommends that policymakers should use
educational materials to augment sleep yet pursue
academic excellence introducing health-friendly
dormitories and funding more research on sleep and
learning. Improving sleep quality indeed leads to
better academic performance and better quality health
making schools a place where students blossom
academically as well as psychologically.
6 CONCLUSION
6.1 Summary of Findings
Drawing from this paper, it becomes evident that
college students with regular sleep, adequate sleep
and quality sleep have better academic results as
compared to their counterparts. In terms of accuracy
and AUC, the Decision Tree demonstrated a better
result compared to SVM, Random Forest, KNN, and
Naïve Bayes to identify the relationship between
chronological sleep features (duration, quality, stress
levels and electronic devices) and performance.
These data buttress the need to pay adequate attention
to the amount of sleep one takes when learning or
performing tasks. The study’s models may be used by
educators and policymakers to know the students who
usually have inadequate rest and who may require
specific remedial actions to overcome their struggling
academic performances and poor general health.
6.2 Recommendations
From previous scholarly research, educational
interventions presented to improve students’
performance should aim at helping students get better
quality sleep. Decision makers need to encourage
improved sleep habits, as proper sleep improves the
brain’s capability to perform some functions such as
memory. Stress has to be lessened also, as it interferes
with the quality of sleep. These measures may
comprise employee services such as fitness and
health promotion activities and counselling services;
stress management strategies including relaxation
and meditation. Moreover, restrictive use of
electronic devices at night is crucial because blue light
hampers the production of melatonin. Education
curricula should alert students of these effects, and
teach them how to practice, for example,
minimization of screen time. It is believed that the
result of these recommendations will enhance
students’ performance.
6.3 Limitations of the Study
A small limitation is that data is obtained from self-
completion of questionnaires, which can result in
reporting biases such as recalling their improved
sleep, stress and academic performance. Also, the
cross- sectional design method limits causality and
temporal variations as the data are collected in a
single point without controlling for change
within weeks or semesters. It is recommended that
future studies should incorporate longitudinal designs
to monitor changes in sleep behaviors and their effects
on performance. These may reduce reliability due to
bias that results from self- reporting, but integrating
objective data from wearables may reduce such
weaknesses.
6.4 Future Research Directions
Future studies should also determine the impact of
intrusive sleep interventions with learners especially
in the academic arena. Whereas this study establishes
a relationship between sleep and performance, future
experimental studies should help understand the
effects of sleep knowledge, stress reduction and
technological devices. The more complex machine
learning algorithm, for instance, deep learning
algorithms or an ensemble of a variety of algorithms
could further augment the analysis of sleep
behaviours. Further, the use of tending data from
wearables may enhance the prediction quality of the
algorithm. The results would be more generalizable if
the study recurs in people of various ethnicities, ages
and learning environments. They may result in
positive approaches towards controlling student sleep
as well as improving learning outcomes.
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