Dr. Elizabeth DeMulder is Director and Associate Professor of Initiatives in Educational Transformation (IET) in the Graduate School of Education's Master's in New Professional Studies - Teaching Program. She earned a PhD in Developmental Psychology from St. John's College, Cambridge University, and a B.S. summa cum laude in Psychology from Wright State University. Dr. DeMulder was a Staff Fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health and came to Mason in 1994 under the auspices of the National Science Foundation's Visiting Professorships for Women Program. She has been a member of the IET faculty since 1996. Dr. DeMulder's research concerns the study of interpersonal relationships in educational contexts and risk and protective conditions in children's development and early education. She is involved in community-based action research in South Arlington, where she developed a family-centered preschool program for low-income, immigrant families as a university/community partnership. Betsy co-edited a book entitled Transforming Teacher Education: Lessons in Professional Development (Bergin and Garvey, 2001) and has published her research in a variety of professional journals.

• Early childhood development and education
• Teacher professional development
• Immigrant perspectives and cultural conflicts in education

Book

• Sockett, H., DeMulder, E., LePage, P., & Wood, D. (Eds.). (2001). Transforming Teacher Education: Lessons in Professional Development. Greenwood Publishing: Bergin and Garvey. Book Chapters
• DeMulder, E., Cricchi, A. & Sockett, H. (2001). Complexity in morally grounded practice. In H. Sockett, E. DeMulder, P. LePage, D. Wood. (Eds.). Transforming Teacher Education: Lessons in Professional Development. Westport CT: Bergin and Garvey.
• DeMulder, E. & Rigsby, L. (2001). Toward a common goal: Teachers and immigrant families in dialogue. In H. Sockett, E. DeMulder, P. LePage, D. Wood. (Eds.). Transforming Teacher Education: Lessons in Professional Development. Westport CT: Bergin and Garvey.

Journal Articles

• Rigsby, L.C. & DeMulder, E. K. (In Press). Teachers' Voices Interpreting Standards: Compromising Teachers' Autonomy or Raising Expectations and Performances? Accepted for publication in The Education Policy Analysis Archives, an open access peer?reviewed scholarly journal published on the Internet.
• DeMulder, E.K. & Rigsby, L. C. (2003). Teachers' Voices on Reflective Practice. Reflective Practice, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 267-290.
• Denham, S., Blair, K., DeMulder, E., Levitas, J., Sawyer, K., Auerbach-Major, S., & Queenan, P., (2003). Preschool emotional competence: Pathway to social competence? Child Development, Vol. 74 (1): 238-256.
• Schmidt, M., DeMulder E.K. & Denham, S. (2002). Kindergarten social-emotional competence: Developmental predictors and psychosocial implications. Early Child Development & Care, Vol. 172(5), 451-462.
• Denham, S., Caverly, S., Schmidt, M., Blair, K., DeMulder, E., Caal, S., Hamada, H. & Mason, T. (2002). Preschoolers' understanding of emotions: Contributions to classroom anger and aggression. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry & Allied Disciplines (Special Issue on Social Cognition). Vol. 43(7), 901-916.
• Denham, S., Blair, K., Dixon, R., Schmidt, M., DeMulder, E. (2002). Compromised emotional competence: Seeds of violence sown early? American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Vol. 72(1), 70-82.
• Strandberg-Sawyer, K., Denham, S., DeMulder, E., Auerbach-Major, S., & Levitas, J. (2002). The contribution of older siblings' reactions to emotions to preschoolers' emotional and social competence. Special Issue on Emotions and the Family, R. Fabes, special issue editor. Marriage and Family Review, Vol 34 (3-4), 183-212.
• Denham, S., Mason, T., Caverly, S., Schmidt, M., Hackney, R., Caswell, DeMulder, E.K. (2001). Preschoolers at play: Co-socializers of emotional and social competence. International Journal of Behavior Development, 25 (4), 290-301.
• DeMulder, E.K., Denham, S.A., Schmidt, M., Mitchell-Copeland. J. (2000). Q-sort assessment of attachment security during the preschool years: Links from home to school. Developmental Psychology, Vol. 36 (2), 274-282.

Conference Presentations

• Kayler, M., Rigsby, L., DeMulder, E., Samaras, A., Newton, L. An Alternative Model of Professional Development: Moving Towards National Board Certification and Teacher Change, Paper accepted for presentation at the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Conference, "Leading Change: A Shared Commitment to Student Learning", Washington, D.C., November 13-16, 2003.
• DeMulder, E.K., Rigsby, L., Caal, S. & Newton, L. University/Community partnership to support low-income immigrant families: A shared responsibility model for early childhood education settings. Presented at the AERA Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2003.
• Rigsby, L., DeMulder, E.K., Caal, S., & Newton, L. Family literacy practices in an immigrant community: Interaction in the contact zone. Presented at the AERA Meeting, Chicago, April 2003.
• DeMulder, E.K., Rigsby, L., Caal, S. & Newton, L. Supporting immigrant families through university/community partnership: A model parent involvement initiative for early childhood education settings. Presented at Head Start's Sixth National Research Conference, Washington, D.C. June 2002.
• Rigsby, L., DeMulder, E.K. & Caal, S., & Newton, L. Home and preschool connections: Meeting in the contact zone. Presented at Head Start's Sixth National Research Conference, Washington, D.C., June 2002.
• Schmidt, M., DeMulder, E.K., Denham, S. Attachment as a predictor of kindergarteners' social-emotional success. Presented at Head Start's Sixth National Research Conference, Washington, D.C., June 2002.
• DeMulder, E.K. Complexity in morally grounded practice. Symposium paper. Symposium with Sockett, H., DeMulder, E., Lepage-Lees, P., & Wood, D. Transforming teacher education: Lessons in professional development. Presented at the AERA Annual Meeting, Seattle, April 2001.
• Schmidt, M. & DeMulder, E.K. Another look at the Attachment Story Completion Task. Presented at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 2001.
• DeMulder, E.K., Rigsby, L., Willson-Quayle, A., Caal, S. Educational opportunities and challenges for immigrant preschoolers and their families. Invited symposium paper presented at HeadStart's Fifth National Research Conference, June 2000.
• DeMulder, E.K., Rigsby, L., Willson-Quayle, A., Caal, S. Immigrant parents of preschoolers and teachers explore cultural issues in education: Contrasting parents and teachers assumptions and concerns. Presented at HeadStart's Fifth National Research Conference, June 2000.
• Sockett, Rigsby, DeMulder, Lepage-Lees, Hicks, & Wood (2000). Pitfalls and Opportunities: The Experience of a Morally-grounded Innovation. Presented at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 2000 Annual Meeting, February 2000.

Courses Taught

• MNPS 700 The New Professionalism: Theory and Practice
• MNPS 702 The New Professional as Reflective Practitioner
• MNPS 703 Technology in the New Professions
• MNPS 704 Research Methodologies in the New Professionalism
• IETT 750 Studies in Language and Culture I
• IETT 751 Studies in Language and Culture II
• IETT 752 Research in Practice: The Team Project
• IETT 753 Teaching and Learning
• EDRS 597 Independent Study
• PSYCH 313 Child Development
• PSYCH 597/897 Special Topics: Developmental Psychopathology

• Graduate School of Education
• Center for Education Policy
• Early Childhood Education
• Initiatives in Educational Transformation
• International Education

• Studies in Language and Culture II (IETT - 751)
• The New Professional as a Reflective Practitioner (MNPE - 702)