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Overview

Mark L. Davison is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and contributes primarily to the field of Psychology. Their research spans several subfields, including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability, and Social Psychology.

The main topics of their scholarly work focus on Reading and Literacy Development, Educational Strategies and Epistemologies, Text Readability and Simplification, Education and Critical Thinking Development, Early Childhood Education and Development, Psychometric Methodologies and Testing, and Student Assessment and Feedback.

Davison has published recent papers covering a range of topics in esteemed journals. These include:

  • Inferential comprehension differences between narrative and expository texts: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2020), published in Reading and Writing
  • Performance on Reading Comprehension Assessments and College Achievement: A Meta-Analysis (2022), published in Journal of College Reading and Learning
  • Social perception: relationships with general intelligence, working memory, processing speed, visual-spatial ability, and verbal comprehension (2020), published in Educational Psychology
  • Bayesian modeling of associations in bivariate piecewise linear mixed-effects models (2020), published in Psychological Methods
  • Meta-analytic criterion profile analysis (2020), published in Psychological Methods

Their work appears frequently in psychological and educational statistics and methods journals. The notable publication venues for their research include:

  • Psychological Methods
  • Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
  • Reading and Writing
  • Journal of College Reading and Learning
  • Educational Psychology

Davison collaborates recurrently with several researchers, reflecting a network of frequent co-authors. These include Sarah E. Carlson, Ben Seipel, Ernest C. Davenport, Virginia Clinton-Lisell, and Nidhi Kohli.

Best Publications

  • The long-term effects of early parent involvement and parent expectation in the USA

    John Mark Froiland;Aubrey Peterson;Mark L. Davison

  • The Justification of Beliefs in Young Adults: A Longitudinal Study.

    P.M. King;K.S. Kitchener;M.L. Davison;C.A. Parker

  • Parental Expectations and School Relationships as Contributors to Adolescents' Positive Outcomes.

    John Mark Froiland;Mark L. Davison

  • Sequentiality and Consistency in the development of reflective judgment: A six-year longitudinal study

    Karen Strohm Kitchener;Patricia M. King;Philip K. Wood;Mark L. Davison

  • Describing and testing a moderator of the moral judgment and action relationship.

    Stephen J. Thoma;James R. Rest;Mark L. Davison

  • Development of a Brief, Multidimensional, Self-Report Instrument for Treatment Outcomes Assessment in Psychiatric Settings: Preliminary Findings

    Mark L. Davison;Boris Bershadsky;Jacque Bieber;Dan Silversmith

  • High School Mathematics Course-Taking by Gender and Ethnicity

    Ernest C Davenport;Mark L Davison;Haijiang Kuang;Shuai Ding

  • Exploring Gains in Reading and Mathematics Achievement among Regular and Exceptional Students Using Growth Curve Modeling.

    Tacksoo Shin;Mark L. Davison;Jeffrey D. Long;Chi Keung Chan

  • Maximum likelihood versus multiple imputation for missing data in small longitudinal samples with nonnormality.

    Tacksoo Shin;Mark L. Davison;Jeffrey D. Long

  • Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling and Its Applications

    Mark L. Davison

  • The longitudinal influences of peers, parents, motivation, and mathematics course-taking on high school math achievement

    John Mark Froiland;Mark L. Davison

  • Religious Bias in Moral Development Research: A Psychometric Investigation

    P. Scott Richards;Mark L. Davison

  • The Reliability and Validity of Objective Indices of Moral Development

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  • Aloha teachers: teacher autonomy support promotes Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students’ motivation, school belonging, course-taking and math achievement

    John Mark Froiland;Mark L. Davison;Frank C. Worrell

  • Effects of Missing Data Methods in Structural Equation Modeling With Nonnormal Longitudinal Data

    Tacksoo Shin;Mark L. Davison;Jeffrey D. Long

  • Age Trends in Judging Moral Issues: A Review of Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, and Sequential Studies of the Defining Issues Test

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  • Estimating Cognitive Profiles Using Profile Analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS)

    Se Kang Kim;Craig L. Frisby;Mark L Davison

  • Inferential comprehension differences between narrative and expository texts: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Virginia Clinton;Terrill Taylor;Surjya Bajpayee;Mark L. Davison

  • 12 – Multidimensional Scaling

    Mark L. Davison

  • Identifying criterion-related patterns of predictor scores using multiple regression.

    Mark L. Davison;Ernest C. Davenport

  • Multidimensional scaling and factor models of test and item responses

    Mark L Davison;Carol L. Skay

  • Using Hierarchical Linear Models to Examine Moderator Effects: Person-by-Organization Interactions

    Mark L. Davison;Nohoon Kwak;Young Seok Seo;Jiyoung Choi

  • The fit between Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory General Occupational Themes and Holland's hexagonal model

    James B. Rounds;Mark L. Davison;Renb V. Dawis

Frequent Co-Authors

P. Scott Richards
P. Scott Richards Brigham Young University
Jeffrey D. Long
Jeffrey D. Long University of Iowa
Phillip K. Wood
Phillip K. Wood University of Missouri
Frank C. Worrell
Frank C. Worrell University of California, Berkeley
Deniz S. Ones
Deniz S. Ones University of Minnesota
Fritz Drasgow
Fritz Drasgow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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