This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) a teacher training packet for fifth and sixth grade reading teachers, (2) the relationship of intellectual and nonintellectual variables to performance on the National Teacher Examinations, (3) teacher decision making, (4) the development of teachers' reading conceptions, (5) the verbal and nonverbal behaviors of reading teachers, (6) training teachers to teach reading to the mildly handicapped, (7) the role of the administrative reading coordinator, (8) the diagnostic skills and training of reading clinicians, (9) elementary school principals' and secondary school teachers' conceptions of reading, (10) information sources used by elementary school reading teachers, (11) teacher questioning techniques, (12) inservice reading education for teachers of bilingual and elementary school students, (13) attitudes of English teachers toward black English and dialects, (14) primary school teacher inservice system for writing instruction, and (15) the selection of a reading curriculum by state supported and Title I kindergarten teachers. (AEA)