Publications by authors named "Shike Zhou"

Article Synopsis
  • Parental emotional companionship is key to children's healthy development and has a positive influence on their second language acquisition.
  • The study analyzed data from Grade 5 and Grade 9 students in Jiangsu Province to understand how this companionship affects their language learning processes.
  • Results indicate that learning confidence and internal motivation serve as mediators in this relationship, with internal motivation being particularly influential in middle school students.
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BACKGROUND In existing research on the importance of student breakfast, few studies have focused on the impact of breakfast on student cognitive development. Further, empirical research in this field is mostly based correlation analysis, in which it is difficult to control the influence of selection bias on the analysis results. MATERIAL AND METHODS Here, we used student academic performance, based on the academic quality monitoring data of Jiangsu basic education students, as a proxy variable for cognitive development, and used both ordinary least-squares regression and propensity score matching methods to analyze the impact of eating breakfast on the cognitive development of primary and middle school students.

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