This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: interrelationships among different approaches to measuring listening comprehension; two methods of articulatory assessment on the responses of kindergarten children; a comparative appraisal of two language arts testing procedures; influences on the evaluators of student writing; assessing factors in children's writing to determine their level of sophistication; first grade children's understanding of the oral language of familiar and unfamiliar adults; the consistency of the Scholastic Aptitude Test--Verbal Section (SAT-V) with present objectives in high school English; the construction and validation of a criterion-referenced test in basic writing skills; the effects of readers' fatigue on the grading of essays; a comparative study of the effects of illustrations in the testing of language comprehension in children; and the effect of three different methods of story presentation on the language performance of third grade students. (MAI)