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) magnet schools and achievement in reading and mathematics; (2) a psycholinguistic analysis of the oral reading behavior of selected urban students; (3) the effect of computer-assisted instruction upon reading achievement with selected fourth-grade children; (4) an activity-based seatwork program for reading and mathematics in the elementary school; (5) a study of reading comprehension instruction; (6) an analysis of the appropriateness and amount of decoding practice provided first-grade children in the readers of five commercial basal reading programs; (7) an extension of Habecker's study of reading questions in selected basal readers; (8) imagery and question strategies in text learning; (9) parental involvement in the reading readiness and reading performance of kindergarten children; (10) the effects of intensive intervention on vocabulary development of seventh grade students in reading; (11) failure in beginning reading; (12) evaluating the implementation of a reading program; (13) prediction as an aid to comprehension; (14) a content analysis of realism in elementary school basal reading textbooks; and (15) the interrelationship of art and reading education. (EL)