The CESI team created this worksheet based on the term GOSA which represents the process of aligning goals, outcomes, strategies, and assessment. It is intended to be a flexible and we encourage you to adapt it as you work through the presentations in the Outcomes Module. Through the multi-tab worksheet, the template provides structure for you to develop academic and civic learning outcomes, brainstorm strategies and forms of assessment, and then map out your assignments and strategies so that you can visually see how you are meeting your learning outcomes.
Based on Dr. Lila Staples’s 2006 syllabus at California State University, Monterey Bay, this is an adapted example originally sourced from pages 140-143 in Developing Outcomes-based Assessment for Learner-centered Education by Amy Driscoll and Swarup Wood. The CESI team also retained an original copy of Dr. Staple’s syllabus.