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Social Sciences and Humanities
China
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
76
Citations
20194
World Ranking
509
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in China Leader Award
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Overview

Timothy Teo is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China and works within the social sciences, focusing primarily on education, sociology and political science, information systems and management, social psychology, and information systems. Their research predominantly covers themes related to technology adoption and user behaviour, impact of technology on adolescents, online and blended learning, gender and technology in education, online learning and analytics, EFL/ESL teaching and learning, and AI in service interactions.

Recent publications by Timothy Teo and collaborators include:

  • Initial teacher training for twenty-first century skills in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0): A scoping review, 2021, Computers & Education
  • Explaining Chinese university students' continuance learning intention in the MOOC setting: A modified expectation confirmation model perspective, 2020, Computers & Education
  • Understanding continuance intention among MOOC participants: The role of habit and MOOC performance, 2020, Computers in Human Behavior
  • The influence of technology acceptance, academic self-efficacy, and gender on academic achievement through online tutoring, 2021, Computers & Education
  • Investigating the antecedents of university students' perceived ease of using the Internet for learning, 2020, Interactive Learning Environments

Timothy Teo frequently publishes in several key venues, including:

  • Computers & Education
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Interactive Learning Environments
  • Educational Technology Research and Development
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Fang Huang
  • Natasha Anne Rappa
  • Hai Min Dai
  • Ronny Scherer
  • Ali Derakhshan

Their body of work intersects strongly with technology and education, emphasizing aspects such as learner continuance intention in MOOCs, academic self-efficacy, and teacher training for emergent skills relevant to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The scientist's research contributes to understanding the behavioural and psychological factors influencing technology adoption in educational contexts across diverse populations. The integration of social sciences with information systems and educational technology is a notable element of their scholarly activity.

Best Publications

  • Modelling technology acceptance in education: A study of pre-service teachers

    Timothy Teo

  • Factors influencing teachers' intention to use technology: Model development and test

    Timothy Teo

  • Understanding pre-service teachers' computer attitudes: applying and extending the technology acceptance model

    Timothy Teo;Chwee Beng Lee;Ching Sing Chai

  • Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes towards Computer Use: A Singapore Survey.

    Timothy Teo

  • An assessment of the influence of perceived enjoyment and attitude on the intention to use technology among pre-service teachers: A structural equation modeling approach

    Timothy Teo;Jan Noyes

  • Assessing the intention to use technology among pre-service teachers in Singapore and Malaysia: A multigroup invariance analysis of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

    Timothy Teo;Chwee Beng Lee;Ching Sing Chai;Su Luan Wong

  • A path analysis of pre-service teachers' attitudes to computer use: applying and extending the technology acceptance model in an educational context

    Timothy Teo

  • A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Intention to Use Technology between Singaporean and Malaysian Pre-Service teachers: An Application of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

    Timothy Teo;Wong Su Luan;Chai Ching Sing

  • Application of Structural Equation Modeling in Educational Research and Practice

    Ernest Afari;Andrew Martin;Diana Mîndrilă;Diane M. Monrad

  • Beliefs about teaching and uses of technology among pre‐service teachers

    Timothy Teo;Ching Sing Chai;David Hung;Chwee Beng Lee

  • Examining the intention to use technology among pre-service teachers: an integration of the Technology Acceptance Model and Theory of Planned Behavior

    Timothy Teo

  • Explaining the intention to use technology among pre-service teachers: a multi-group analysis of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology

    Timothy Teo;Jan Noyes

  • Explaining the intention to use technology among university students: a structural equation modeling approach

    Timothy Teo;Mingming Zhou

  • Explaining the Intention to Use Technology among Student Teachers: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB)

    Timothy Teo;Chwee Beng Lee

  • An initial development and validation of a Digital Natives Assessment Scale (DNAS)

    Timothy Teo

  • Attitudes toward Computers: A Study of Post-Secondary Students in Singapore

    Timothy Teo

  • Examining the influence of subjective norm and facilitating conditions on the intention to use technology among pre-service teachers: a structural equation modeling of an extended technology acceptance model

    Timothy Teo

  • Explicating the influences that explain intention to use technology among English teachers in China

    Timothy Teo;Fang Huang;Cathy Ka Weng Hoi

  • Explaining Chinese university students’ continuance learning intention in the MOOC setting: A modified expectation confirmation model perspective

    Hai Min Dai;Hai Min Dai;Timothy Teo;Natasha Anne Rappa;Fang Huang

  • Unpacking teachers’ intentions to integrate technology: A meta-analysis

    Ronny Scherer;Timothy Teo

  • Becoming more specific

    Ronny Scherer;Fazilat Siddiq;Timothy Teo

  • Epistemological beliefs on teaching and learning: a survey among pre‐service teachers in Singapore

    Ching Sing Chai;Myint Swe Khine;Timothy Teo

Frequent Co-Authors

Fang Huang
Fang Huang University of Science and Technology of China
Ching Sing Chai
Ching Sing Chai Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ronny Scherer
Ronny Scherer University of Oslo
Francisco José García-Peñalvo
Francisco José García-Peñalvo University of Salamanca
Joyce Hwee Ling Koh
Joyce Hwee Ling Koh University of Otago
Xitao Fan
Xitao Fan Chinese University of Hong Kong
David J. Hargreaves
David J. Hargreaves AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
Ali Tarhini
Ali Tarhini Sultan Qaboos University
Andrew J. Martin
Andrew J. Martin University of New South Wales
Gavin T. L. Brown
Gavin T. L. Brown University of Auckland

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