This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of simulated role playing on student knowledge, attitudes, and performance in an undergraduate reading methods course; (2) Indiana English teachers' perceptions of their college preparation; (3) instructional behavior in the reading arts of two groups of special educators; (4) inservice training on reading in the content areas; (5) teachers' and supervisors' perceptions of appropriate instruction for teaching reading to good and poor readers; (6) achievement, aptitude, and attitudinal variables related to preservice teachers' performance on criterion referenced tests in reading; (7) teachers and students as conversational partners; (8) the effects of inservice training of reading teachers on the achievement of reading pupils in a metropolitan school system; (9) factors influencing first grade teachers' selection and use of diagnostic procedures in beginning reading; (10) attitudes and perceptions of teachers of freshman composition; (11) an innovative inservice model for paraprofessionals in an elementary school; (12) teacher perceived management style as related to the reading scores of elementary school students; and (13) the interactions between an external change agent and teachers implementing a reading readiness curriculum. (FL)