id: 06474296 dt: a an: 2015e.00259 au: Axtell, Mike; Turner, William ti: An investigation into the effectiveness of pre-class reading questions. so: Dewar, Jacqueline M. (ed.) et al., Doing the scholarship of teaching and learning in mathematics. Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) (ISBN 978-0-88385-193-7/pbk; 978-1-61444-318-6/ebook). MAA Notes 83, 137-142 (2015). py: 2015 pu: Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) la: EN cc: D20 D45 C35 C55 ut: scholarship of teaching and learning; universities; educational research; literature review; pre-class reading assignments; understanding; questioning; conceptual knowledge; didactics of mathematics; educational diagnosis; analysis of learning outcomes; evaluation; teaching-learning processes; academic approach; professional development; peer review ci: ME 2015e.00258 li: ab: Summary: In this chapter the authors describe how they went about undertaking, as novices, a literature review in mathematics education. Their experience revealed to them the critical role that the literature review can play in refining a SoTL research question and how it can aid in designing a study. Readers may want to contrast their study of reading questions with that written by {\it D. Bruff} in [ibid., 127‒136 (2015; ME 2015e.00258)]. rv: