Centering around the common theme of reading evaluation, the papers in this yearbook were either presented at or are based on presentations from the 1985 American Reading Forum conference. Titles of some of the papers and their authors are as follows: "Teacher Competency Testing" (S. Kossack); "Principals as Instructional Leaders" (J. Laffey); "Issues Related to Testing" (W. Otto); "Issues Related to Labels" (K. Camperell); "Issues Related to Personal Context" (B. Hays); "A View of a Statewide Evaluation" (J. Handler and D. Carlson); "The Role of the Reading Educator in the Training of Elementary School Principals" (R. Kurth); "Are Student Interviews a Legitimate Evaluation Tool for Assessing School Reading Programs?" (J. Cassidy and others); "Evaluation of Adult Illiterates' Oral Language Associations with the Paradigmatic/Syntagmatic Inventory" (J. Dinnan and L. Pulling); "Nonliterate Adults' Knowledge of and Attitudes toward Microcomputers for Reading Instruction" (L. Wachter and E. Askov); "Application of Teacher Effectiveness: Research" (T. Blair and J. Young with a reaction by C. Stice); "Reading Evaluation in the Classroom" (L. Gentile); "An Analysis of Linguistic and Comprehension Strategies of Low Ability Readers" (V. Risko); "College Reading Programs 1958-1978" (A. Mallery); "Developmental Reading Program Innovations and Practices at the University of Cincinnati" (T. Bullock and D. Madden); "Guidelines and Practices of Evaluation of State Reading Programs" (P. Smith and S. Rebottini); "Teacher Perceptions of Microcomputer Courses" (P. Ransom);"Evaluation of Variations among Reading Improvement Students through Three Decades" (M. Harshbarger); "A Comparison of Parent and Teacher Perceptions of Student Behaviors" (J. Williams); "Evaluating Perceptions of Learners at Different Levels" (D. Lumpkin); "Research in Teaching Context Clues" (J. Elliott); "Reading Inventories of the Future" (W. Henk with a reaction by L. Tomlinson); "The Cloze Reading Inventory as a Qualitative and Quantitative Measure of Reading Ability" (R. DeSanti with a reaction by C. Stice); "Content Reading" (R. Telfer); "Preliminary Development of a Screening Instrument for Learning Disabilities" (C. Cloer, Jr.); "The Mandate: Evaluation of Teacher Candidates by Use of Competency Tests" (R. Flippo); "How Effective Are Quantitative Teacher Evaluations?" (B. Herrmann); "Evaluation of a Reading Program" (B. Wise and J. Shaver); "Students' Perceptions of Their Study Habits" (B. Townsend); "Evaluation of Learning Disabled College Students" (K. Norlander and others); "Reading and Learning: The Learning Abilities of Three Types of Poor Readers" (R. Bloomer and others with a reaction by R. Flippo); "Ethnographic Research on Junior Great Books" (N. Boraks and others); "Evaluating Materials" (M. Collins); "Evaluation of Teaching with Discussion" (D. Alvermann); "New Ways to Use Student Writing Samples in Reading Diagnosis" (P. Duncan). References for each article are included. (SKC)