Mark L. Davison

Mark Leonard Davison is an American psychometrician.

Davison earned his undergraduate degree from Augustana College in 1970.{{cite news |title=Class of 1970 giving summary for fiscal year 2020-2021 |url=https://augustana.edu/giving/donor-recognition/class-gifts/class-of-1970 |access-date=14 August 2023 |publisher=Augustana College}}{{cite news |title=Loyalty Circle |url=https://www.augustana.edu/giving/donor-recognition/loyalty-circle-2021-22 |access-date=14 August 2023 |publisher=Augustana College}} 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,{{MathGenealogy}} at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1974, where he was advised by Lawrence E. Jones.{{cite thesis |last=Davison |first=Mark Leonard |date=July 1974 |title=Fitting a Set of Points to a Space Defined by a Second Set: An Extension of Multidimensional Scaling and Unfolding Models |id={{ProQuest|7511813}}}} Davison subsequently taught at the University of Minnesota as the John P. Yackel Professor in Educational Assessment and Measurement.{{cite news |title=Mark Davison |url=https://www.cehd.umn.edu/edpsych/people/mld/ |access-date=14 August 2023 |publisher=University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development, Department of Educational Psychology}}{{cite news |title=Faculty profile: Mark L. Davison |url=https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/mark-l-davison |access-date=14 August 2023 |publisher=University of Minnesota |date=10 July 2017}}

Davison was chief editor of the academic journal Applied Psychological Measurement from January 2007 to November 2012.{{cite journal |last1=Davison |first1=Mark L. |title=New Editor's Statement: Continuity and Change |journal=Applied Psychological Measurement |date=January 2007 |volume=31 |issue=1 |page=3 |doi=10.1177/0146621606295551|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Chang |first1=Hua-Hua |title=New Editor's Statement |journal=Applied Psychological Measurement |date=November 2012 |volume=36 |issue=8 |page=631 |doi=10.1177/0146621612464945|doi-access=free }} He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.{{cite news |title=Div. 5 Fellows |url=https://www.apadivisions.org/division-5/membership/fellows |access-date=14 August 2023 |publisher=American Psychological Association}}