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The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students. This volume contains a collection of contributions from multidisciplinary fields and working environment (school, university, research). The contributions have been selected through a call for papers and submitted to peer review by qualified experts.

educational tests and measurements --- scientific literacy --- cross-cultural studies --- academic achievement --- mathematics achievement

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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.

school achievement --- school failure --- academic achievement --- social responsibility attitudes --- SEL programs --- social emotional competence --- early intervention --- mathematics achievement --- self-efficacy --- reasoning skills.