Natalie G. Olinghouse
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Research Scientist, Center for Behavioral Education and Research

Natalie Olinghouse is an Assistant Professor in the Educational Psychology Department and a Research Scientist in the Center for Behavioral Education and Research. Prior to The University of Connecticut, she was an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education and Special Education at Michigan State University. Dr. Olinghouse’s research interests include learning disabilities, reading and writing connections, large-scale writing assessments, and reading/writing interventions for struggling learners. Dr. Olinghouse has twelve years of special education teaching experience in Michigan and Florida.

•Ph.D., Special Education, Vanderbilt University, 2006

•M.A., Curriculum and Instruction, Michigan State University, 1999

•B. S., Mental Impairment/Elementary Education, Eastern Michigan University, 1990

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Contact Information: 

Gentry - 002D

Phone: (860) 486-6153

Email: natalie.olinghouse@uconn.edu

Mailing Address:
Department of Educational Psychology
Neag School of Education
249 Glenbrook Road Unit 2064
Storrs, CT 06269-2064

Current Courses Taught:

EDCI 4110W Introduction to the Teaching of Reading and Writing in Elementary School

EPSY 5116 Individual Pupil Assessment

Areas of Expertise:

Learning Disabilities

Literacy

Assessment

Selected Publications/Presentations:

Olinghouse, N. G., & Graham, S. (2009). The relationship between the writing knowledge and the writing performance of elementary-grade students. Journal of Educational Psychology, 101, 37-50.

Olinghouse, N. G., & Leaird, J. T. (in press). The relationship between measures of vocabulary and narrative writing quality in second- and fourth-grade students. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Olinghouse, N. G. (2009). Writing assessment for struggling learners. Perspectives in Language and Literacy, Summer, 15-18.

Olinghouse, N. G. (2008). Student- and teacher-level predictors of narrative writing competence of third-grade students. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 21, 3-26.

Olinghouse, N. G. (2008, December). Writing assessment, instruction and intervention in a RtI framework. Invited presentation for 2008 Arizona RtI State Conference, Phoenix, AZ.

Olinghouse, N. G. (2008, July). Modeling the writing development of second- and fourth-grade students. Paper presented at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading, Ashville, NC.

Olinghouse, N. G. (2008, July). Modeling the writing development of second- and fourth-grade students. Paper presented at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading, Ashville, NC.