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]