This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: the development of strategies and materials for teaching speech communication to students in a remedial pilot program; the treatment of ethics in selected speech communication textbooks; methods of instruction in the college communication classroom; the development of the system for integrated language communications observation; the effects of three methods of instruction on student comprehension and application of the communication process; 25 communication modules for middle school students; sex and sex role differences in the classroom verbal behavior of college students; orientations among speech faculty and chairpersons toward faculty performance assessments; the effect of a communication training model on ninth grade students; the organization of verbal interaction in classroom lessons and its effect on successful classroom participation; verbal interaction of student teachers and their pupils during language arts and social science lessons; verbal communications of teachers and students in small groups for personal and interpersonal growth in the classroom; and the effect of assertive communication and presence of audience on students' and teachers' perceptions of the rules that guide a student in a disagreement with a teacher. (FL)