The researcher will observe how well students learn to have good sleeping habits, and how they apply them when they're at home. The researcher will also observe if the good sleeping habits that were taught at the younger age will be used as the student gets older.
The target group for this study are teenage students that are entering, or in puberty. Teenage students are the most suspectable to sleep deprivation. Since they are going through puberty their sleeping habits tend to get more mixed up. The teenage students need at least 8 ½ hours of sleep.
To find out if this hypothesis is correct I will need to choose students when they are young and pre-pubescent. The proper times to choose these students are when they are in the last year of elementary education. In most schools the last year of elementary school is the 5th grade. This is a good age group because these students are able to learn better, and most have not gone through puberty. In order to choose a good subject group the researcher will need to use a stratified random sample. This is a great sample to use because it specifies the percentage of students to be drawn from each population category; race, gender, rural school, urban school, and socioeconomic status, and then randomly selects participants from within each category. Researchers can use a census to get the right demographic information of the population that can eventually be used for a stratified random sample. In order for the data to be generalizable a total of 5 subjects from each populatio!.
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In this longitudinal study there will be no control group. The researcher will rather observe how well just the subject group learns and applies good sleeping habits from a pre-pubescent age to teenage years.
To carry out this study their will have to be a researcher for each individual subject. After the subjects have been chosen from a stratified random sample they will go into a program that teaches them proper sleeping habits.