TY - BOOK ID - 134293948 TI - School Achievement and Failure in Portuguese and Spanish Speaking Countries AU - Adelinda A. Candeias AU - Edgar Galindo AU - Miguel Ángel Carbonero AU - Heldemerina S. Pires PY - 2018 PB - Frontiers Media SA DB - UniCat KW - social emotional competence KW - school failure KW - academic achievement KW - early intervention KW - mathematics achievement KW - self-efficacy KW - social responsibility attitudes KW - reasoning skills. KW - SEL programs KW - school achievement UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134293948 AB - This book is devoted to an increasingly important educational problem in the modern societies: school achievement and failure. School failure is presently a problem in developed as well as in developing countries. In the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries in Europe and Latin America, school achievement and failure is consequently an important topic of political, social and scientific discussion. The following papers revise the latest research in the field, from the perspective of Psychology. ER -