Deliver sleep education at school to improve sleep, cognition and academic performance¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · 3 claims (3 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study

Description¶

Sleep education delivered at school is a classroom-based intervention in which children learn about sleep and its role in learning. The article reports that this approach improved sleep, cognitive functioning and academic performance in children, making it a feasible whole-class strategy for supporting learning through health education.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Delivered at school to children as part of classroom instruction

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• children in school settings

Target Learning Goals¶

• improved sleep habits
• improved cognitive functioning
• improved academic performance

Claims¶

• Sleep education at school improves academic performance in children [+W]
• School-based sleep education improves children's sleep duration and quality [+W]
• Sleep education at school improves cognitive functioning in children [+W]

Related Strategies¶

• Assess sleep problems early in primary school and provide preventive intervention, including sleep hygiene education, to protect later academic performance

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Amandine Eve Rey, Anne Guignard-Perret, Françoise Imler-Weber, Luis Garcia Larrea, Stéphanie Mazza. (2020). Improving sleep, cognitive functioning and academic performance with sleep education at school in children. Learning and Instruction, 65, 101270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2019.101270