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GA DOE Fitness Assessment Overview
GA DOE Fitness Assessment Overview
https://www.georgiastandards.org/Georgia-Standards/Documents/Georgia-Fitness-Assessment.pdf
Why FIT Georgia?
Why FIT Georgia?
FIT Georgia is a state-developed fitness assessment designed to measure various aspects of physical health, including Healthy Body Ranges, Aerobic Capacity, Flexibility, Muscular Strength, and Muscular Endurance. The assessment was created to meet Georgia standards and replaces the previous fitness assessment platform.
Why does FIT Georgia exist?
Why does FIT Georgia exist?
According to state board rule 160-4-2.12, each local board of education is required to administer a Fitness Assessment approved by GaDOE. FIT Georgia satisfies this requirement and is intended for use by stakeholders involved in the education system and government programs aimed at improving childhood health and wellness.
Who participates in Fit Georgia and what do they do?
Who participates in Fit Georgia and what do they do?
The assessment is designed for students in grades K-12, with different expectations for each grade level. Healthy Body is an optional assessment for Kindergarteners. Healthy Body is a required assessment for students in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grad. Teachers have the option to practice the other assessments, but Fit Georgia does not require those to be reported. Students in 4th-12th grade are required to complete all five assessments for Fit Georgia.
The health data collected through Fit Georgia can be used in various ways by stakeholders. Students and parents can use it to monitor and maintain overall health for academic success. Teachers, schools, and district administrators can use the data to guide instruction, evaluate teacher performance, and secure grant opportunities. Government and non-government partners can use the data to inform policy, program, curricular, and instructional decisions, as well as provide funding for professional learning, grants, and non-profits. The Georgia Health Policy Center evaluates health policy from a system thinking perspective, covering topics such as health financing, coverage, access to care, prevention, and special health topics.
Health-Related Fitness Components
Health-Related Fitness Components
What activities are included in the student fitness measurement?
Healthy Body Measurement of Height and Weight.
Aerobic Capacity options include the 15-meter and 20-meter Pacer, and the Mile Run.
Additional tests include the Sit and Reach, Curl Ups, and Push-ups.
The FIT Georgia test battery assesses health-related fitness components: aerobic capacity, body composition, and muscular strength, endurance, and flexibility. Activity assessments are included for step or minute challenges, physical activity behaviors, and overall activity levels to provide teachers with a variety of ways to promote physical activity to students.
Aerobic Capacity
Aerobic Capacity
Aerobic Capacity - 20-Meter Pacer Test
Aerobic capacity is evaluated using estimates of VO2max (also known as maximal oxygen uptake). VO2max reflects the maximum rate that the respiratory, cardiovascular, and muscular systems can take in, transport, and use oxygen during exercise. Good aerobic capacity (cardiorespiratory fitness) has been shown to reduce the risk of high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes, the metabolic syndrome, and some forms of cancer.
All Aerobic Capacity scores are reported as estimates of VO2max. Higher VO2max scores reflect a greater ability to take in and use oxygen and a greater potential to perform endurance exercise.
Muscular Strength, Endurance & Flexibility
Muscular Strength, Endurance & Flexibility
Abdominal Strength & Endurance - Curl Ups
Upper Body Strength & Endurance - 90° Push-Ups
Flexibility - Back-Saver Sit and Reach
Test components for the musculoskeletal system are broken down into three primary areas: muscular strength, muscular endurance and flexibility. FIT Georgia tests these three areas to assess the functional health status of the musculoskeletal system.
Muscular strength is the maximal force your muscles can exert in a single effort.
Muscular endurance is the ability to sustain, or repeat muscular activity, over time.
Flexibility describes the range of motion of muscles at the joint.
FIT Georgia recommends tests of the upper body and the abdominal/trunk areas to assess musculoskeletal fitness because of their relationship to activities of daily living, good posture, and back health.
Musculoskeletal fitness helps an individual perform daily activities more easily, reduces the risk of injury, and improves abdominal and back health. Most important, helping children and youth be aware of the status of their muscular strength, endurance and flexibility can carry forward into adulthood, preventing health concerns and improving quality of life.
Healthy Body
Healthy Body
Height & Weight (BMI)
Body composition describes what part of total body weight is fat, and what part is fat free. Fat-free body weight includes bones and muscles. FIT Georgia believes it is important to educate youth and parents about appropriate levels of body composition. Some body fat is needed for overall good health, but too much can lead to health problems, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Overweight youth are at a higher risk for becoming overweight adults. Therefore, by maintaining a healthy weight a child can potentially reduce their future risk of health problems.
FIT Georgia body composition standards are based on percent body fat. Although an assessment of percent body fat utilizing a bioelectric impendence device or skin-fold assessment would be ideal, practical application in schools is very difficult. Therefore, FIT Georgia also provides standards for a widely used alternative indicator of body composition known as Body Mass Index (BMI).
The BMI is based on weight relative to height and essentially indicates if the weight is appropriate for the height. BMI cannot measure fat directly, but it can help assess health risks related to a body weight that is too great or too little for the height. FIT Georgia BMI standards for youth take into account age and gender.
FIT Georgia Benchmarks
FIT Georgia Benchmarks
Back Saver Sit & Reach
4th Grade - 8" boys / 10" girls
5th Grade - 8" boys / 10" girls
Curl Ups
4th Grade - 13 boys / 12 girls
5th Grade - 16 boys / 15 girls
Pacer 20m - boys & girls
4th Grade - 16 boys / 14 girls
5th Grade - 18 boys / 16 girls
Push Ups (90 degrees) - boys & girls
4th Grade - 8 boys / 6 girls
5th Grade - 8 boys / 6 girls
FIT Georgia is unique, and widely accepted, because the fitness assessments are evaluated using criterion-referenced standards. An advantage of criterion-referenced standards, over percentile norms, is they are based on levels of fitness for good health. The amount of fitness needed for good health differs between boys and girls and it also varies across age.
FIT Georgia classifies fitness levels using discrete zones to allow for more personalized feedback. The two primary zones are Meets Expectations and the Needs Improvement; however, for aerobic capacity and body composition two distinct Needs Improvement and Needs Improvement-Health Risk are used to make further distinctions in fitness. The use of three zones makes it possible to provide more effective prescriptive messages to youth since the zones are based on clear differences in potential health risks.
Meets Expectations
Meets Expectations
The goal in FIT Georgia is for children to achieve the Meets Expectations Zone on as many assessments as possible. Because only modest amounts of activity are needed to obtain health benefits, most students who perform regular physical activity will be able to achieve a score that will place them within or above the Meets Expectations Zone on most FIT Georgia test items. If children are in the Meets Expectations Zone they are considered to have sufficient fitness for good health.
Needs Improvement
Needs Improvement
Indicates that if the student continues to track at this level there is the potential for future health risks. However, this potential is possible, not probable. Increased activity as well as eating a healthy, controlled diet could delay or reverse this potential risk. Children in the Needs Improvement Zone receive messaging on their FIT Georgia reports explaining how they should strive to move into the Meets Expectations Zone.
Needs Improvement-Health Risk
Needs Improvement-Health Risk
Indicates that if the student continues to track at this level there is a clear potential for future health problems (a more probable risk). The need for increased activity and eating a healthy diet is more urgent for students in this category than those in the Needs Improvement Zone. Children in the Needs Improvement-Health Risk Zone receive messages warning them of probable risk if they continue tracking at this level.
FIT Georgia Date Entry
FIT Georgia Date Entry
FIT Georgia Resources
FIT Georgia Resources
PACER
How to do Pacer - video description / set up
Pacer data entry
PUSH UPS
How to do Push Ups - video protocol description / PE Specialist
CURL UPS
comfortable clothes, mats, and curl up strips
How to do Curl Ups - video protocol description / PE Specialist
Curl Ups data entry
SIT & REACH
comfortable clothes, Sit & Reach box, take off shoes
How to do Sit & Reach - video protocol description (2 feet together, not left then right)
Sit & Reach data entry
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