This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 28 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of superlearning on retention/hypermnesia of rare English words in college students; (2) a Delphi study of American, British, and Canadian English educators' views of the future of secondary English teaching; (3) predicting children's spelling performance; (4) aspects of sophistic pedagogy; (5) the effects of story structure instruction on third graders' concept of story, reading comprehension, response to literature, and written composition; (6) the effect of vocabulary instruction on text comprehension; (7) student engagement and its relationship to student achievement, gender, time of school day, difficulty of course, and type of class activity; (8) a program for the integration of reading and composition in the social studies curriculum in a selected junior high school; (9) use of feedback on microcomputers to teach spelling in elementary school; (10) the effects of a mastery learning/competency-based education instructional approach on facilitating students' retention of achievement in language arts and mathematics; (11) secondary vernacular study and the origins of modern American education; and (12) the effect of a training program in listening on the reading achievement and listening comprehension of second and third grade students. (HOD)