The 8-Hour Challenge: Incentivizing Sleep during End-of-Term Assessments

Journal of Interior Design
Elise King, Michael K Scullin

Abstract

Sleep is critical to physical health, mental well-being, attention, and creativity. During the week of final exams, however, fewer than 10% of undergraduate students maintain the recommended average of 8 hours/night (or, even the recommended minimum of 7 hours/night). For students completing multifaceted projects in studio-based majors (e.g., interior design, architecture, graphic design, studio art), anecdotal and questionnaire data suggest that the end-of-semester reduction in sleep duration may be even worse. One potential solution is to offer students an incentive to maintain healthy sleep durations. We offered interior design students, who were enrolled in a freshman-level graphics studio course, an optional extra credit incentive to maintain optimal sleep durations for five nights leading up to the due date of their final project. If participants maintained an average sleep duration of ≥ 8.0 hours for five nights, they would earn extra credit. By contrast, if they slept an average of 7.0-7.9 hours, there would be no grade change, and if they slept an average of ≤ 6.9 hours, they were instructed that they would lose points (no points were actually deducted). Of the 28 students enrolled in the course, 22 students attempted ...Continue Reading

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