Mark L. Davison

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Additional publications

2001 Minnesota Education Yearbook. (2002). Minneapolis, MN: Office of Educational Accountability, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota.

Interpreting Results on the Fifth Grade Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments in Reading and Math: Links to Performance on the Minnesota Basic Standards Test Three Years Later. (2001). Minneapolis, MN: Office of Educational Accountability, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota.

Fastbreak to Learning School Breakfast Program: A Report of the Second Year Results, 2001-2002. (2002, in progress). Minneapolis, MN: Office of Educational Accountability, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota.

Multidimensional scaling (2000). In H. E. A. Tinsley and S. D. Brown (Eds.). Handbook of applied multivariate statistics. New York: Academic Press. Pp. 323 – 352. (with S. G. Sireci).

Profile patterns: Research and professional interpretation (2000). School Psychology Quarterly, 15, 457 – 464. (with H. Kuang)

Sex by item interactions in multiple choice mathematics items administered to national probability samples (2001 in press). Journal of Educational Measurement, 38. (with J. Bielinski).

Multidimensional assessment methods (in press). Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment.

2000 Minnesota Yearbook: The status of pre-K-12 education in Minnesota (2000). Minneapolis, MN: Office of Educational Accountability, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. (with E. C. Davenport, Jr., N. Kwak, K. A. Petersen, J. Choi, L. Helseth, J. L. Schleisman, & Y. S. Seo. )

A few weeks of summer: Post-summer school achievement among state-funded students who do not initially pass Minnesota’s high school graduation test (April 2001 expected). Minneapolis, MN: Office of Educational Accountability, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota.

Fast-break to learning school breakfast programs: A report of the first year results 1999-2000 (March 2001). Minneapolis, MN: Office of Educational Accountability, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota.

Presentations

Return on Investment Indicators in Education. Paper presented to the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 1, 2002. (with M. Irish and J. Harring).

Two former students (C. S. Ding and S. K. Kim) and I have organized a symposium for AERA (April 11, 2001, Seattle, WA) entitled Educational Applications of Multidimensional Scaling and Related Structural Equations Models (SEM). These three papers authored or co-authored by me will be included in the symposium.

• Identifying the major profile patterns in scores on test batteries.
• Connecting structural equations model analysis and profile analysis via multidimensional scaling. (with S. K. Kim)
• Investigating the relationship between profile patterns and other variables: A structural equations approach. (with C. S. Ding, S. Sackett, & R. Blake).

What makes the soft sciences soft: The problem of causality in educational research. Presented to the psychological foundations program, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, November, 2000.