This compendium of 216 abstracts updates Walter E. McPhie's "Dissertations in Social Studies Education" published as Research Bulletin number 2 by the National Council for the Social Studies, 1963. In the introduction, the authors analyze and comment on the direction of social studies research. Abstracts with bibliographic data and microfilm order numbers are arranged by level within general topics: administration; curriculum; instruction; cognition and learning; teacher education and teacher evaluation; general. Subject and author indexes are included. (VLW)