An Interactive Psycho-Structural Approach to Study the Effect of Sleep and Attention Factors on Building Mathematics Competencies for Third- Year Primary School Pupils according to Structural Equations Modeling

Abstract

The current study aimed to test hypotheses about the influence of attention and sleep on the
construction of third-year students' learning in mathematics. The sample size was estimated at
124 male and female students from the third-year primary schools and 178 male and female
teachers distributed in the schools of Setif municipality, who were selected randomly.
The hypotheses were verified using F.Testu's number-crossing scales in four different formats,
a questionnaire distributed to parents to monitor their children's sleep and time they wake up,
then at the end of the semester we obtained the students' quarterly results, and we distributed
an observation grid to the teachers of the third year primary students, namely the attention scale,
the sleep scale and the SCI socio-constructive and interactive model, all these tools in order to
verify the direct and indirect hypotheses of the study.
After processing the hypotheses, the first hypothesis and the second hypothesis, which
addresses attention, were realized, while the hypothesis that addresses sleep was not realized,
however as a concluding that there is an apparent effect of attention, while the effect of sleep
did not appear in this study.