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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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The social contagion of work avoidance goals in school and its influence on student (dis)engagement

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether work avoidance goals spread among classmates and found that avoidance goals are socially contagious and that they have negative consequences for students' engagement and disengagement.
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Studying 'a thousand miles away': The motivational implications of cross-cultural transitions

TL;DR: This paper examined factors that can influence international students' academic motivation during and after transition and proposed three broad theoretical frameworks drawn from the acculturation literature: culture learning theory, stress and coping theory, and social identification theory to understand the impact of the transition on student motivation.
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Examining the links between social goals and learning strategies

TL;DR: This paper investigated how different types of social goals (social affiliation, social approval, social concern, and social status) were related to students' learning strategies and found that social concern and social social status goals were positively associated with deep learning and achieving learning strategies.