Sylvia Chong

Associate Professor Sylvia Chong

Associate Professor

Office of the Provost

Tel: +65 6248 0110

Email: c3lsdmlhY2hvbmdAc3Vzcy5lZHUuc2c=

Educational Qualifications

  • 1992

    Ed.D, Teacher Education - University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign

  • 1989

    MMus, Music Education - University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign

  • 1988

    BMus (University High Honors) – Southern Illinois State

  • 1986

    Certificate in Ed – London Montessori Centre, Teacher Training College

  • 1984

    Dip Teach – Trinity College, London

Academic and Professional Experience

  • Associate Professor, Business Intelligence & Analytics, SUSS (current)
  • Deputy Head, Office of Academic Quality Management, NIE (2009 – 2012)
  • Associate Dean, Foundation Programmes Office, NIE (2006 – 2009)
  • Associate Professor, Visual & Performing Arts Academic Group, NIE (1992 – 2012)

Chong, S., & Gopinathan, S. (accepted for publication).
“Teacher Quality in Singapore.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Ed. Jo Lampert. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wong, A., & Chong, S. (2018).
Modelling adult learners’ online engagement behaviour: proxy measures and its application. Journal of Computers in Education, 1-17.

Chong, S. (2016).
Identification of Early Predictors of Adult Learners’ Academic Performance in Higher Education. IAFOR Journal of Education, 4(2).

Chong, S., Mak, M., & Loh, W. M. (2016).
Data-mining applications with the admission data of adult learners in higher education: a pilot study. International Journal of Management in Education, 10(2), 131-144.

Chong, S., Loh W.M. & Babu, M. (2015).
The Millennial learner: A new generation of adult learners in higher education. Advances in Scholarship in Teaching and Learning 2(2)

Chong, S., Loh W.M. & Mak, X. M. (2014).
Analysis of Factors that Influence Beginning Teachers’ Perception of their Instructional Competency. International Journal of Educational Reform 23 , 66

Choy, D., Wong,A. F., Chong, S., & Lim, K. M. (2014).
Beginning Teachers’Pedagogical Skills and Knowledge Towards Positive Pedagogic Teacher-Student Relationships. US-China Education Review B. June 2014, Vol. 4, No. 6, 357-367

Low, E.L., Chong, S. & Ellis, M. (2014).
Teachers’ English communication skills: Using IELTS to measure competence of graduates from a Singaporean teacher education program Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 38 (10)

Chong, S. (2014).
Academic quality management in teacher education: a Singapore perspective. Quality Assurance in Education, 22(1), 53-64.

Koh, H.C., & Chong, S. (2014).
Broadening and Deepening Of SoTL with Learning Analytics. Advances in SoTL 1 (1), 49-62.

  • Editorial member, IAFOR Journal of Education (2017)
  • Member, European Educational Research Association Network 11: Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance (since 2011)

Her research interests are inter-disciplinary in nature and include both substantive and methodological approaches. The areas of interest include Quality Management in Higher Education (Educational Accountability, Teaching & Learning Quality), Beliefs, identity and epistemology (Self-efficacy - educators & learners; Beliefs about teaching and learning), Evaluation (Instrument development & validation; issues in tool development & administration; quantitative analysis & reasoning, multilevel modelling; qualitative coding & category systems) and Learning analytics (deciphering learning trends & patterns).

Recent Research Grants:

  • 2019 - Identifying determinants and making predictions of MENDAKI TUITION SCHEME (MTS) students’ academic performance – a sequential explanatory and data mining approach (Singapore Millennium Foundation Endowment $ 179,917) On-going
  • 2017 -  LinkingTheory and Professional Practice:An Inquiry into Early Childhood Teachers’ Professional Development (WDARF RA.109.1001 $157,500) On-going
  • 2016 -  Analysing Learners’ Online Study Behaviour and Its Association with Academic Performance (RF16IRA01 $250,118) On-going
  • 2014 - An Exploratory study of UniSIM’s Associates - Establishing Baseline Knowledge (Institutional Research - Throughputs) – (RF14PO01 $ 189,000) Completed
  • 2013 - Institutional Research (Inputs) – Mining UniSIM’s Enrolment Data with Descriptive and Predictive Analysis (RF13LSC01 $ 157,500) Completed
  • 2011 - IELTS & its Correlation with Teachers’ Communicative Competence ($203,735, ERFP) Completed
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