Colleen Davy

Colleen is the Associate Director for Faculty Assessment, where she is primarily responsible for developing and implementing assessment processes to aid faculty in identifying their strengths and areas for improvement, measuring faculty satisfaction with professional development and other resources at SPS, and assessing the success of the Faculty Assessment and Development Team's offerings in providing quality professional development that enhances faculty's instructional effectiveness. She is also involved in designing, developing, and implementing workshops and related programming on topics that are most relevant to faculty and in supporting faculty and administrators to develop assessment practices for use with their course or program. 

Previously, Colleen was the Director for Assessment and Academic Quality at The New School. In this role, she led and managed program-level assessment across the university by collaborating with program chairs and directors to develop multi-year research plans that incorporated assessment of both student learning and the student experience; developing rubrics, surveys, questionnaires, and focus groups to collect information about students and faculty; and translating data into strategic insights to aid programs in determining how to best meet the needs of their students. She also co-chaired an Assessment of Student Learning committee and provided training and support to faculty and administrators who were interested in incorporating assessment into their courses or programs. Prior to The New School, Colleen was an Assessment Specialist in the History and Social Sciences area at Educational Testing Service, where she served as a content expert and test developer for the Psychology tests for the AP, GRE, and CLEP programs. 

Colleen also has experience as an instructor in higher education, having served as a course instructor in the Psychology department at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was awarded the departmental Herb Simon Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching, and as an adjunct faculty member at Rider University. 

Colleen holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, where she was a predoctoral fellow in the Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER), an Institute of Education Sciences-funded program designed to train doctoral students from a variety of disciplines to conduct rigorous education research. Her research was primarily related to the cognitive factors involved in second language acquisition, the development of speaking skills in a second language, and the sociocultural factors related to providing feedback among second language learners.