This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The ten titles deal with the following topics: passage integrity and type of instruction in prose learning; college student self-concept and reading gain in two instructional methods; the consequences for adults of childhood underachievement in reading; an instrument for evaluating instructional materials for adult basic reading; adult reading behavior and ego-stage development; the reading preferences of institutionalized versus noninstitutionalized rural older adults; tutor training practices, procedures, and materials in an adult literacy program that uses volunteer tutors; the validity of four nontraditional measures of reading comprehension; relationships between college reading program content, operation, and effectiveness; and the development of an adult literacy program. (RL)