This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 24 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the relationship between home environment and reading achievement in Puerto Rican pupils; the relationship between magical thinking and reading skills in emotionally disturbed children; characteristics of achieving and nonachieving students in a Title I reading program and in a preschool reading program; personalized educational prescriptions employing analysis of educational cognitive styles; differences in cognitive style and visual motor ability in poor, average, and good readers; development of logical thought in adolescents with reading retardation; the relationships between reading achievement and social interaction, geographic isolation, and children's developmental stage; nonintellectual factors in achievement of black disadvantaged male students; metalinguistic awareness and reading strategies in proficient and learning disabled readers; linguistic aspects of word recognition by adolescents; reading disabilities of disadvantaged students; factors affecting reading comprehension scores of deaf children; and predictor variables for first grade reading achievement. (GW)