Timothy Teo 香港中文大學教育學院副院長
Timothy Teo (Ph.D.) is Professor at the Faculty of Education at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR). Having worked in Australia, Macau, New Zealand, and Singapore, Timothy was previously Professor of Education at Murdoch University and Distinguished Professor of Education and Associate Dean (Research and Personnel Development) at the University of Macau. In addition to his fulltime employment, Timothy holds and has held the position of Adelaide University International Fellow (Australia), Ewha University Global International Fellow (South Korea), Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University (Australia), Edith Cowan University (Australia), Honorary Chair Professor at the National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Adjunct Senior Professor at the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Malaysia), Visiting Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (Mainland China), and Adjunct Professor at the Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education (Hong Kong). Timothy’s research interests are multi-disciplinary and include both substantive and methodological areas. These are Educational Psychology (Self-efficacy-teachers and students; Beliefs about teaching and learning; Meta-cognition), ICT in Education (Technology acceptance and adoption; e-learning), Music Education (Psychological processes of music teaching and learning), and Quantitative Methods (Psychometrics; Instrument development and validation; cross-cultural measurement; issues in survey development and administration; structural equation modeling; multilevel modeling; latent growth modeling). Timothy is Editor-in-Chief of The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher (TAPER) (SSCI Q1) and a member of many journal editorial boards. A highly published and cited scholar, Timothy has edited three books. written many book chapters and conference papers, and published 235 journal articles, with over 180 in highly- ranked SSCI journals. His Google Scholar citations are close to 30,000 with an H-index of 86. In the release of the 2024 Edition of Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities (Research.com), Professor Timothy Teo was ranked #886 in the world and #9 in China. In the 2025 version of the Top 2% Scientists report from Stanford University (USA), Professor Timothy Teo was ranked #19 out of the Education scholars in the world.

