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Papers by Marquita Walker

Research paper thumbnail of Training for my life: Lived experiences of dislocated workers in an advanced manufacturing training program.

Advances in Social Work Journal, 2012

Abstract: This qualitative paper explores the lived experiences of one group of workers disloca... more Abstract: This qualitative paper explores the lived experiences of one group of workers dislocated because of globalized trade policies who completed a hybrid Advanced Manufacturing
Training Program (AMTP) by taking advantage of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), a federally-funded program for retraining workers dislocated because of trade policies. The research questions focus on how satisfied these workers are with the services and programs provided by TAA. Focus groups and survey instrument results indicate these workers found TAA services and processes cumbersome and time- consuming and actually had the effect of discouraging their education,
training, and self- employment. The consequences of their dislocation as it relates to TAA experiences are increased frustration and dissatisfaction with the TAA program. Serious
consideration for TAA policy changes should be deemed of utmost importance.

Keywords: Advanced manufacturing training, dislocated workers, lived experiences

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the intervention of an ethic's class in students' ethical decision-making: A summative review

This summative evaluation is the result of two years' of data reflecting the impact of an ethics ... more This summative evaluation is the result of two years' of data reflecting the impact of an ethics class in terms of students' ethical decision-making. The research compares aggregate responses from scenario-based pre-and post-survey open-ended survey questions designed to measure changes in ethical decision-making by comparing students' cognitive and affective perceptions about ethical workplace behavior. Grounded in constructivist theory, which explains how individuals "know" and "come to know something , this intervention of an ethics class encourages students to make better and more informed ethical decisions in the workplace based on their understanding of their value and belief system. The findings suggest the intervention of an ethics class informed students' cognitive and affective perceptions based on individual value and belief systems, strengthened student's ability to remain open-minded and reconsider previous beliefs and actions from a 360 degree perspective, and increased student's ability to apply new information to ethical dilemmas in the workplace.

Research paper thumbnail of Walker, M. (2011). Evaluating the intervention of an ethics class in students' ethical decision-making.

Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Dec 1, 2011

In this pilot study, the author evaluated the impact of an ethics class in terms of students’ e... more In this pilot study, the author evaluated the impact of an ethics class in terms of students’ ethical decision-making. The research compares aggregate responses from scenario-based pre- and post-survey open-ended survey questions designed to elicit changes in ethical decision-making by comparing students’ cognitive and affective perceptions about ethical workplace behavior. Grounded in constructivist theory, which explains how individuals “know” and “come to know something (Reeves, 2003), this intervention encourages students to make better
and more informed ethical decisions in the workplace based on their understanding of their value and belief system. The findings suggest increased positive cognitive and affective changes in student perceptions that inform one’s value and belief system, the student’s ability to remain open-minded and reconsider previous beliefs and actions from a 360
degree perspective, and the student’s ability to apply new information to ethical dilemmas in the workplace.2

Keywords: ethical decision-making, constructionist theory, cognitive and affective
perceptions

Research paper thumbnail of Separate Spheres Collide: The Economic Influence of Slavery on Sarah Josepha Hale's Northwood (1827 and 1852)

Publications of the Missouri Philological Association , 25, 64-71., Jan 1, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Perceptions of Educational Attainment on Intragenerational Social Mobility: Individual Agency Within Class Structure

This study's purpose is to describe and discover the perceptions scholarship recipients who obtai... more This study's purpose is to describe and discover the perceptions scholarship recipients who obtained college degrees may have concerning their own intragenerational social mobility and how those perceptions may affect the broader issues of social and economic inequity through a qualitative exploration grounded in life course research, interpretative phenomenology, and Heideggerian hermeneutics. The dimension of individual agency within the meritocratic and reproductive perspectives of educational attainment is explored from a class structural viewpoint.

Research paper thumbnail of Training for my life: Lived experiences of dislocated workers in an advanced manufacturing training program.

Advances in Social Work Journal, 2012

Abstract: This qualitative paper explores the lived experiences of one group of workers disloca... more Abstract: This qualitative paper explores the lived experiences of one group of workers dislocated because of globalized trade policies who completed a hybrid Advanced Manufacturing
Training Program (AMTP) by taking advantage of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), a federally-funded program for retraining workers dislocated because of trade policies. The research questions focus on how satisfied these workers are with the services and programs provided by TAA. Focus groups and survey instrument results indicate these workers found TAA services and processes cumbersome and time- consuming and actually had the effect of discouraging their education,
training, and self- employment. The consequences of their dislocation as it relates to TAA experiences are increased frustration and dissatisfaction with the TAA program. Serious
consideration for TAA policy changes should be deemed of utmost importance.

Keywords: Advanced manufacturing training, dislocated workers, lived experiences

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the intervention of an ethic's class in students' ethical decision-making: A summative review

This summative evaluation is the result of two years' of data reflecting the impact of an ethics ... more This summative evaluation is the result of two years' of data reflecting the impact of an ethics class in terms of students' ethical decision-making. The research compares aggregate responses from scenario-based pre-and post-survey open-ended survey questions designed to measure changes in ethical decision-making by comparing students' cognitive and affective perceptions about ethical workplace behavior. Grounded in constructivist theory, which explains how individuals "know" and "come to know something , this intervention of an ethics class encourages students to make better and more informed ethical decisions in the workplace based on their understanding of their value and belief system. The findings suggest the intervention of an ethics class informed students' cognitive and affective perceptions based on individual value and belief systems, strengthened student's ability to remain open-minded and reconsider previous beliefs and actions from a 360 degree perspective, and increased student's ability to apply new information to ethical dilemmas in the workplace.

Research paper thumbnail of Walker, M. (2011). Evaluating the intervention of an ethics class in students' ethical decision-making.

Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Dec 1, 2011

In this pilot study, the author evaluated the impact of an ethics class in terms of students’ e... more In this pilot study, the author evaluated the impact of an ethics class in terms of students’ ethical decision-making. The research compares aggregate responses from scenario-based pre- and post-survey open-ended survey questions designed to elicit changes in ethical decision-making by comparing students’ cognitive and affective perceptions about ethical workplace behavior. Grounded in constructivist theory, which explains how individuals “know” and “come to know something (Reeves, 2003), this intervention encourages students to make better
and more informed ethical decisions in the workplace based on their understanding of their value and belief system. The findings suggest increased positive cognitive and affective changes in student perceptions that inform one’s value and belief system, the student’s ability to remain open-minded and reconsider previous beliefs and actions from a 360
degree perspective, and the student’s ability to apply new information to ethical dilemmas in the workplace.2

Keywords: ethical decision-making, constructionist theory, cognitive and affective
perceptions

Research paper thumbnail of Separate Spheres Collide: The Economic Influence of Slavery on Sarah Josepha Hale's Northwood (1827 and 1852)

Publications of the Missouri Philological Association , 25, 64-71., Jan 1, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Perceptions of Educational Attainment on Intragenerational Social Mobility: Individual Agency Within Class Structure

This study's purpose is to describe and discover the perceptions scholarship recipients who obtai... more This study's purpose is to describe and discover the perceptions scholarship recipients who obtained college degrees may have concerning their own intragenerational social mobility and how those perceptions may affect the broader issues of social and economic inequity through a qualitative exploration grounded in life course research, interpretative phenomenology, and Heideggerian hermeneutics. The dimension of individual agency within the meritocratic and reproductive perspectives of educational attainment is explored from a class structural viewpoint.