This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the relationship between self-concept and reading ability in secondary school students; (2) students' perceptions of their reading groups and peers within these groups; (3) perceived leadership behaviors and demographic characteristics of principals as they relate to student reading achievement in elementary schools; (4) the differences in observable characteristics of learned helplessness demonstrated on a reading task by underachieving and achieving middle school boys of low and high socioeconomic status; (5) the effects of library skill instruction on academic achievement, knowledge of library skills, and reading attitudes; (6) reading habits and abilities of students in elementary schools with and without centralized libraries; (7) elementary school student growth in reading and mathematics during the summer; (8) the contribution of selected home environmental factors to reading achievement; (9) a comparison of intellectual, self-esteem, and anxiety factors of normal and disabled elementary school readers; (10) cognitive strategies and individual differences in beginning reading achievement; (11) the relationship between motor learning and reading cognition; (12) myths of the acquisition of literacy; and (13) the relationship between student learning style and reading achievement. (HTH)