This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 22 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the role of the paraprofessional in the high school classroom; (2) the effectiveness of a staff development program in reading; (3) perceived characteristics of effective secondary level reading teachers; (4) the language attitudes of selected kindergarten through grade 12 teachers in five Arkansas communities; (5) the role of the National Council of Teachers of English in English teacher preparation; (6) the roles, responsibilities, and role conflicts of secondary school English department chairpersons in Rhode Island; (7) changes in teachers' thinking at the conclusion of an inservice reading program; (8) inservice education in the teaching of writing in North Carolina public school systems in 1981-82; (9) the pattern of decisions made by primary grade reading teachers in planning their classroom instruction; (10) the influence of first grade teachers' conceptual frameworks of reading on their students' perceptions of reading and learning to read; and (11) the accuracy of teacher self-reports about their instructional practices in word and language study. (RBW)