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]

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  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 OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  4. 1 2 "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). doi: 10.1177/0146621606295551 .
  8. ↑ Chang, Hua-Hua (November 2012). "New Editor's Statement". Applied Psychological Measurement. 36 (8). doi: 10.1177/0146621612464945 .
  9. ↑ "Div. 5 Fellows". American Psychological Association. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
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