Points+to+consider

As people are responding to the Top 8 questions, so very good points/concerns are being made so I want to share them with all of you to think about as we move forward with our survey.

As I said before I am having a really hard time choosing any of these questions to look at. I like #18 What time do you normally go to bed, but I think there needs to be a range of hours to pick from. Also, I think people would need to list what time they wake up because if someone goes to bed at 2 a.m. but doesn't have class till noon they might still get a lot of sleep whereas someone might go to bed at 2 a.m. and have class at 8 a.m. and get much less sleep. I think then this question goes back to a numerical question we are asking of how much sleep a person is getting in an average school week (if we decide to use that).

I have picked my top 8 but I am starting to over think this. I am just wondering if we are asking full-time WMU undergrad students if sleep affects their GPA we are looking at their GPA from a past semester right? Not this current semester because we have determined that we do not know the current GPA as it is in progress.

If that is the case, shouldn't we be tailoring all of our questions to the past semester when the GPA was obtained? For example, wouldn't we want to know how many hours a week on average the student was getting during the last semester? Or this is maybe where I am over thinking it and we really want to know how many hours a week the student recieves now but still want to know their GPA from last semester?