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]