Judy Gutteridge fulfilled the requirements for Master of Education, University of Melbourne, with her completion of the study: “An Investigation of the Relationship of Movement and Dance to the Self-Concept and Academic Performance of Middle-Primary-School Children.”

The principal aim of this study was to investigate whether a program of dance, presented in a cooperative learning framework, would be instrumental in improving the self-concept of a sample of Grades 3, 4 and 5 primary school children. A pre- and post-intervention, randomised blocks design, incorporating both experimental and control conditions, was adopted for this purpose. Both quantitative and observational qualitative data were utilised in the analysis of the study outcome. (p. 8)