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LESLEIGH (Merryn) DAWBORN-GUNDLACH

0000-0002-8193-5670

Senior Lecturer (Education)

Melbourne, Australia

Merryn is a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne. She teaches in the Master of Teaching (Secondary) course in the Faculty of Education and is active in developing initial teacher education in Victoria, as coordinator of the Master of Teaching (Secondary) Internship course, a position which supports change of career teachers as interns in schools and in her position as Physics Learning Area Coordinator. Merryn’s research interests focus on transition and retention of early career teachers, developing scientific reasoning competencies of pre-service science teachers, investigating the support required by change of career teachers, and supporting Vocational Education and Training Teachers and out of field Physics teachers in Australian schools. Prior to her current position, Merryn taught Mathematics, Physics and Science in government, independent, Catholic and faith schools in Victoria, NSW and the USA, including teaching in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program.

Publications

  • Accessing the International Baccalaureate: class, growth and marketisation in Australian schools, 2008–2019
  • Measures of the adjustment of mature-age, undergraduate students to university
  • Measures of the adjustment of mature-age, undergraduate students to university
  • CAREER-CHANGERS: Keeping career-change teachers in the profession
  • Enhancing pre-service teachers' concept of Earth Science through an immersive, conceptual museum learning program (Reconceptualising Rocks)
  • Thematic Analysis of Qualitative Data Using Diverse yet Complementary Approaches
  • The Relationship between Demographic Factors and Adjustment to University for Mature-Age, Undergraduate Students
  • The Experience of Transition and Adjustment for Mature-Age, Undergraduate Students in their First Year of University
  • Teacher Retention: Supporting Early-Career Science Teachers
  • Enhancing student learning through science related excursions.
  • Mathematical Studies SL
  • Authentic Collaboration between the Melbourne Museum and the Melbourne Graduate School of Education
  • Positive Positioning of Participants in Science Education Centre Learning Partnerships
  • Scientific reasoning competencies in science teaching
  • Naturwissenschaftliche Bildungsmöglichkeiten im Museum (Science Teacher Education Opportunities in Museums)
  • The challenge to retain second-career teachers
  • Teacher perceptions of quality criterion referenced rubrics in practice
  • Social Adjustment and Transition to University for Mature-Age, Undergraduate Students
  • Adapting a self-efficacy scale to the task of teaching scientific reasoning: collecting evidence for its psychometric quality using Rasch measurement
  • Lessons to learn from the International Baccalaureate
  • Social Adjustment and Transition to University for Mature-Age, Undergraduate Students
  • Contemporary Approaches to Research
  • Teaching Australian Students to reason scientifically
  • Vocational and applied learning teachers in schools: Motivation and satisfaction of staying
  • A Two Way Lens
  • Connecting Pre-service Teacher Education to practice
  • Career Change Teachers: Caveat and Opportunities in Workforce Planning for Schools
  • Career changers in the teaching profession
  • The role of Physics Teachers in Junior Science Programs
  • Practices for developing students' science inquiry skills
  • Structuring Higher Education Partnerships with Science Education learning Centres
  • Structuring Higher Education Partnerships with Science Education learning Centres
  • Teacher Retention
  • Career change teachers in hard-to-staff schools: should I stay or leave?
  • Vocational teachers in school settings: career pathways and motivations

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