Mark L. Davison

Mark Leonard Davison is an American psychometrician.

Davison earned his undergraduate degree from Augustana College in 1970.[1][2] He completed his doctoral dissertation, titled Fitting a Set of Points to a Space Defined by a Second Set: An Extension of Multidimensional Scaling and Unfolding Models,[3] at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1974, where he was advised by Lawrence E. Jones.[4][5] Davison subsequently taught at the University of Minnesota as the John P. Yackel Professor in Educational Assessment and Measurement.[4][6]

Davison was chief editor of the academic journal Applied Psychological Measurement from January 2007 to November 2012.[7][8] He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.[9]

  1. ^ "Class of 1970 giving summary for fiscal year 2020-2021". Augustana College. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Loyalty Circle". Augustana College. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  3. ^ Mark L. Davison at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ a b "Mark Davison". University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development, Department of Educational Psychology. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  5. ^ Davison, Mark Leonard (July 1974). Fitting a Set of Points to a Space Defined by a Second Set: An Extension of Multidimensional Scaling and Unfolding Models (Thesis). ProQuest 7511813.
  6. ^ "Faculty profile: Mark L. Davison". University of Minnesota. 10 July 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  7. ^ Davison, Mark L. (January 2007). "New Editor's Statement: Continuity and Change". Applied Psychological Measurement. 31 (1): 3. doi:10.1177/0146621606295551.
  8. ^ Chang, Hua-Hua (November 2012). "New Editor's Statement". Applied Psychological Measurement. 36 (8): 631. doi:10.1177/0146621612464945.
  9. ^ "Div. 5 Fellows". American Psychological Association. Retrieved 14 August 2023.