Mikidadi Juma Rwechoka

Aspirations in the Margins: Institutional Barriers to the Adoption of Alternative Assessment Tools for Higher-Order Thinking in Tanzanian Secondary Science and Mathematics Classrooms

Mikidadi Juma Rwechoka & Shabani Juma Baya · Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies · 2026

Aims: Secondary school science and mathematics teachers in Tanzania widely endorse alternative assessment methods (AAAM), including portfolios, rubrics, concept maps and project-based tasks, as valid evidence of higher-order thinking (HOT), yet rarely use them in practice. This s...