Dr. Debra Plowman Junk joins Virginia Keasler and JC Sanders to discuss her research interests which include children’s thinking about mathematics as well as teachers’ decision making as they develop lessons for problem solving. In Episode 2 they discuss how to formatively assess students’ understanding of problems by examining their work, listening to them explain, anticipating where students may have misconceptions and selecting student work to compare and scaffold ideas. Mathematics Assessment Project http://map.mathshell.org/background.php ASCD Article on Formative vs Summative Assessment http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/dec07/vol65/num04/The-Best-Value-in-Formative-Assessment.aspx Podcast Transcript www4.esc13.net/uploads/math/docs/S-3Algebra_episode2.docx