Biography:Mark L. Davison

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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]

References

  1. "Class of 1970 giving summary for fiscal year 2020-2021". Augustana College. https://augustana.edu/giving/donor-recognition/class-gifts/class-of-1970. 
  2. "Loyalty Circle". Augustana College. https://www.augustana.edu/giving/donor-recognition/loyalty-circle-2021-22. 
  3. Mark L. Davison at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Mark Davison". University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development, Department of Educational Psychology. https://www.cehd.umn.edu/edpsych/people/mld/. 
  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. https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/mark-l-davison. 
  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. https://www.apadivisions.org/division-5/membership/fellows.