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ERIC Number: EJ1431455
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 4
Abstractor: As Provided
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EISSN: EISSN-2056-7936
Post-Class Naps Boost Declarative Learning in a Naturalistic School Setting
Thiago Cabral; Natália B. Mota; Lucia Fraga; Mauro Copelli; Mark A. McDaniel; Sidarta Ribeiro
npj Science of Learning, v3 Article 14 2018
Laboratory evidence of a positive effect of sleep on declarative memory consolidation suggests that naps can be used to boost school learning in a scalable, low-cost manner. The few direct investigations of this hypothesis have so far upheld it, but departed from the naturalistic setting by testing non-curricular contents presented by experimenters instead of teachers. Furthermore, nap and non-nap groups were composed of different children. Here we assessed the effect of post-class naps on the retention of Science and History curricular contents presented by the regular class teacher to 24 students from 5th grade. Retention was repeatedly measured 3-4 days after content learning, with weekly group randomization over 6 consecutive weeks. Contents followed by long naps (>30 min), but not short naps (<30 min), were significantly more retained than contents followed by waking (Cohen's d = 0.7962). The results support the use of post-class morning naps to enhance formal education.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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