Program: Get Fit
Date: Wed Oct 10, 2012 - 4:30:31 pm
1) Below are your program's student outcomes (SOs). Please add or update as needed.
Student Outcomes are related directly to the mission and vision of Get FIT. Please below for the Get FIT Mission & Vision:
The College of Education’s (COE) Manoa Partnerships supports programs, in partnership with other UH colleges, departments, the community and other organizations, for students, especially those from underrepresented minorities and the Native Hawaiian Community, to explore the possibilities of teaching, learning about leadership skills, and immersing themselves in the study of cultural implications of teaching and learning. The goal is to home-grow teachers who will bring their knowledge and understanding back to their own communities. Get FIT, a program within Manoa Partnerships, is an exploratory pre-education program for UH students who are interested in teaching and hopefully plan to apply to the UHM College of Education. It also offers support for students already admitted to the College of Education. The program offers stipends to students (Get FIT Scholars), both residential and non-residential, interested in broadening their understanding of the field of education and also serving the community through a comprehensive service-learning project.
Get FIT also works with high schools on the neighbor islands, and thus helps foster a greater awareness of opportunities available to high school students who think they are interested in becoming teachers. This work is being is now being integrated with the Get FIT Scholars as they mentor and provide information to high school students.
2011-2012 Accomplishments:
30 Get FIT Scholars, who are interested or are already in the field of education, were awarded $1,000 stipends. These Scholars, amost half of whom were Native Hawaiian, ranged from first year to graduate students, and participated in a number of special College of Education events. These Scholars also created and participated in outreach to the Big Island high and middle schools, and locah high shcool visits to the UHM College of Education.
Membership in Get FIT was 359, comprised of Native Hawaiian students, Teacher Cadet High School students, first year to graduate students, community college students, the Get FIT/College of Education (COE) Residential Learning Program students, outer Island students and College of Education classes and students.
Get FIT visited Teacher Cadet Schools in the community, visited the education ACE programs, attended various University of Hawai‘i and COE recruitment events, and offered Praxis I Study Aids and other direct support services to prospective COE applicants.
2011-2012 Progress:
30 Get FIT Scholars, who are interested in or are already in the field of education, were accepted into the 2011-2012 Get FIT Scholars program. These Scholars range from first year to graduate students, and include 13 Native Hawaiian students. These students have already participated in a number of special Get FIT/College of Education events. These Scholars partiipcated in helping to create the ground work for a mentoring program focused on serving Native Hawaiian high school students on the Island of Hawai‘i.
Membership in Get FIT is 425, comprised of Native Hawaiian students, Get FIT Scholars, Teacher Cadet High School students, first year to graduate students, community college students, the Get FIT/College of Education Residential Learning Program students, outer Island students and College of Education classes and students.
Get FIT attended COE recruitment and welcome events and classes, and continues to offer Praxis I Study Aids and other direct support services to prospective COE applicants.
2) Your program's SOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.
Program's Website. URL: Student Handbook. URL, if available online: Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure. URL, if available online: UHM Catalog. Page Number: 
Other: They are given in reports like this, and in grant reports. Other: 3) Provide the program's activity map or other graphic that illustrates how program activities/services align with program student outcomes. Please upload it as a PDF.
4) Did your program engage in any program assessment activities between June 1, 2011 and September 30, 2012? (e.g., establishing/revising outcomes, aligning activities to outcomes, collecting evidence, interpreting evidence, using results, revising the assessment plan, creating surveys, etc.)
Yes
No (skip to question 14)5) For the period June 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012: State the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goals. Include the student outcomes that were targeted, if applicable.
6) State the type(s) of evidence gathered to answer the assessment question and/or meet the assessment goals that were given in Question #5.
7) State how many persons submitted evidence that was evaluated. If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.
8) Who interpreted or analyzed the evidence that was collected? Check all that apply.
Program faculty/staff member(s) Faculty/staff committee Ad hoc faculty/staff group Director or department chairperson Persons or organization outside the university Students (graduate or undergraduate) Dean or Associate Dean Advisory Board Other: 9) How did he/she/they evaluate, analyze, or interpret the evidence? Check all that apply.
Compiled survey results Used quantitative methods on student data (e.g., grades, participation rates) or other numeric data Used qualitative methods on interview, focus group, or other open-ended response data Scored exams/tests/quizzes Used a rubric or scoring guide Used professional judgment (no rubric or scoring guide used) External organization/person analyzed data (e.g., Social Science Research Institute) Other: 10) For the assessment questions/goals stated in Question #5, summarize the actual results.
11) What was learned from the results?
12) State how the program used the results or plans to use the results. Please be specific.
13) Reflect on the assessment process. Is there anything related to assessment procedures your program would do differently next time? What went well?
14) If the program did not engage in assessment activities, please explain.
Or, if the program did engage in assessment activities, please add any other important information here.
The program is no longer under the direction of the previous Get FIT Program Director, who has now left the program, and this report will be the last on the Get FIT Program. Assessment activies were the purview of that director.