Professional Membership
- Member of American Psychological Association (since 2008)
- Member of Association of Psychological Science (since 2008)
Teaching Areas
Developmental psychology
Educational psychology
- Teaching and learning, parents and schooling, teachers and education, the professional teacher
Quantitative research methods
Research Interests
- Cultural and educational context of achievement
- Parents and achievement
- Chinese learner and exceptionality
Recent and Ongoing Research Projects
Internal Research Grant Project
- A whole school model of parents’ and teachers’ role in relation to students’ cognitive ability and attributions that affect their academic achievement.
Academic Research
- English Teaching Assistants: A pilot study into the effectiveness of ETA role.
Representative Publications
Book Chapter
- Phillipson S. ( 2007). Understanding and teaching students with emotional and behavioural disorders. In S. N. Phillipson (Ed.), Learning diversity in the Chinese classroom: Contexts and practice for students with special Needs (pp. 307- 358). Hong Kong: The Hong Kong University Press.
- Phillipson, S. ( 2007). Towards understanding a Malay conception of giftedness. In S. N. Phillipson & M. McCann (Eds.) Conceptions of giftedness: Sociocultural perspectives (pp. 253-282), Malwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Refereed Journal Articles
- Raquel, M. R. & Phillipson, S., (under review). Full scale theatre productions as a language learning environment in Hong Kong. British Educational Research Journal.
- Raquel, M. R. & Phillipson, S., (under review) The enhancement of socially constructed learning concepts through theatre productions. Cambridge Journal of Education.
- Phillipson, S. &Phillipson, S. N., (under review). The development and validation of a parental questionnaire in Hong Kong: Combining confirmatory factor analysis with Rasch modeling. Journal of Applied Measurement .
- Phillipson, S. (under review). Beliefs, expectations and academic achievement: Voices of students and their parents. School Psychology International.
- Phillipson, S. (under review). Parental mediatory role in academic achievement within the socio-cultural context of Hong Kong. Journal of International Educational Research .
- Phillipson, S. (in press). Context of academic achievement: Lessons from Hong Kong. Educational Psychology.
- Phillipson, S., & Phillipson, S. N. ( 2007). Academic expectation, belief of ability and involvement by parents as predictors of child achievement: A cross-cultural comparison. Educational Psychology, 27( 3), 329- 348.
- Phillipson, S. (2006). Cultural variability in parent and child achievement attributions: A study from Hong Kong. Educational Psychology, 26( 5), 625-642.
- Phillipson, S. N., Kaur, I., & Phillipson, S. ( 2003). A late developer – gifted education in Malaysia within a global context. The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 12( 2), 135- 175.
Conference Papers
- Phillipson, S., (2008). Parental role in academic achievement; A study of four primary schools in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA), National Institute of Education, Singapore, 26 – 28 November, 2008.
- Phillipson, S., (2008). Adaptation and Rasch analysis of the Swanson-Cognitive Processing Test in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS), Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan, 1-3 August, 2008.
- Phillipson, S., ( 2007). Parental expectation, involvement and SES as mediators of students’ cognitive abilities in affecting academic achievement within Hong Kong cultural context. Paper presented at the Xth European Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic, 3- 6 July 2007.
- Phillipson, S., & Phillipson, S. N.( 2007). A cross cultural study of parental factors as predictors of student academic achievement in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the Xth European Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic, 3- 6 July 2007.
- Phillipson, S. ( 2006). Parent and child achievement attributions: A Hong Kong context. Hong Kong Psychological Society Annual Conference, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 10 th June 2006.
- Phillipson, S. ( 2005). Hong Kong parents’ academic expectation and perception of child’s memory as predictors of child achievement. Hong Kong Psychological Society Annual Conference, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 4 th June 2005.
- Phillipson, S. ( 2002). The gifted mind: how it reads and writes. 7th International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Federation for Gifted Education, Bangkok, August, 2002.
Book Reviews
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Phillipson, S. (submitted). Vygotsky and Research, Harry Daniels, 2008, London/ New York: Routledge, ISBN: 978-0-415-39593-9, Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties.
Publications in preparation
- Qiu, X., & Phillipson, S., The English Teaching Assistants’ journey to role identity. British Educational Research Journal.
- Phillipson, S. N. & Phillipson, S., Leadership development in context. To be submitted to Hong Kong University Press.
- Phillipson, S. &Phillipson, S. N., The piloting of an evaluation tool for placement of English Teaching Assistants within a tertiary teaching and learning setting. Journal of Educational Measurement .
- Phillipson, S. &Callingham, R., Adaptation and Rasch analysis of the Swanson-Cognitive Processing Test in Hong Kong. Journal of Educational Measurement.
- Phillipson, S .,A concise approach to model achievement: Using Rasch analysis with structural equation modeling. Psychological Science.
Professional Services
2008-2009
- Mentor to Miss Chiu Ka Wing in Shi Tu Mentorship Scheme
2008 – current
- Peer referee for the British Educational Research Journal, published by Taylor and Francis.
2008 – current
- Peer referee for the Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, published by Taylor and Francis.
2007 - current
- Peer referee for the journal Educational Psychology, published by Taylor and Francis.
2006-2007
- Audio recording of reading two Malaysian Poems in Malay English.
- This recording was published in Kirkpatrick, A. T., ( 2007). World Englishes: Implications for international communication and English language teaching. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
- Created and completed the artwork for the book cover of Dr Shane Phillipson and Dr Maria McCann edited book entitled, Conceptions of giftedness: Sociocultural perspectives.
- Team member organizing committee of Pacific-Rims Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) at the end of June, 2006
- Choreographer of dance sequence and routines in the English Department, The Hong Kong Institute of Education play production of “Tempest” and “Midsummer Nights Dream” 2006/2007
