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Ronnel B. King

Researcher at University of Hong Kong

Publications -  216
Citations -  4589

Ronnel B. King is an academic researcher from University of Hong Kong. The author has contributed to research in topics: Academic achievement & Student engagement. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 174 publications receiving 3044 citations. Previous affiliations of Ronnel B. King include Hong Kong Institute of Education & National Institute of Education.

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Supporting students' intrinsic motivation for online learning tasks: The effect of need-supportive task instructions on motivation, self-assessment, and task performance

TL;DR: In this article , the effect of need-supportive task instruction on students' situational intrinsic motivation in an online language learning task was investigated, and it was found that the need support had no direct effect on task performance, but it yielded significant indirect effects via self assessment practice.
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The Dark Cycle of Work Avoidance Goals and Disengagement: A Cross-Lagged Analysis

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-lagged analysis was used to test reciprocal relations between work avoidance goal pursuit and the experience of disengagement, and the results showed that T1 work avoidance goals had an impact on subsequent T2 disengagement and that T 1 disengagement also had an effect on T2 work avoidance, while temporal stability was also shown for both work avoidance and disengagement.
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Academically at-risk adolescents in Singapore: The importance of teacher support in promoting academic engagement

TL;DR: This paper examined the associations of teacher support and teacher-student relationship with the academic engagement of 1469 Secondary 1 (Grade 7) students in Singapore and found that teacher autonomy and competence support, along with trust accorded to teachers, were significant positive predictors of the students' academic engagement.
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The Concurrent Trajectories of Utility Value, Metacognitive Strategy Use, and Achievement

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined both the individual and concurrent trajectories of utility value, metacognitive strategies, and achievement using a three-wave longitudinal sample of 6,776 Hong Kong secondary students.