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About Prof Timothy Teo
Timothy Teo (Ph.D.) is Professor of Education a Murdoch University (Perth, Australia). Having worked in Singapore, and New Zealand, Timothy was previously Distinguished Professor of Education and Associate Dean at the University of Macau. In addition to his fulltime employment, Timothy presently holds the position of Honorary Chair Professor at the National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), and Visiting Professor at the Universiti Tengku Abdul Rahman (Malaysia). 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 chief editor of two international journals, The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher (TAPER) and International Journal of Quantitative Research in Education (IJQRE) and a member of over 10 journal editorial boards. A highly published and cited scholar, Timothy has edited three books and written many book chapters and conference papers, and published close to 190 peer-reviewed journal articles, with over 140 in highly ranked SSCI journals. His Google Scholar citations are over 13,300 with an H-index of 59.