“…In this regard, with respect to the first research question, the results obtained show that Portugal, Spain, Chile, and Brazil have been the Ibero-American countries that have made the greatest commitment over the last decade to the application and, especially, the evaluation of this type of interventions in compulsory education (i.e., primary and secondary education). Particularly, by a systematic and rigorous evaluation, characterized by the selection of quasi-experimental evaluation methodological designs, with Coelho et al (2016a), Faria et al (2018, Santos et al (2020a) Social awareness Coelho and Sousa (2017a) Coelho et al (2014, 2016b, Sousa (2017b, 2018), Santos et al (2020a) Self-control Coelho and Sousa (2017a) Moreira et al (2010), Coelho et al (2015Coelho et al ( , 2016b, Sousa (2017b, 2018), Pereira and Marques-Pinto (2017), Santos et al (2020a,b) Relationship skills Castillo et al (2013) comparison groups, mostly non-randomly configured, but with statistical adjustments that guaranteed their equivalence in the pretest phase. In the rest of the Ibero-American countries, as in the early childhood education stage, no studies with these characteristics have been identified regarding SEL practices.…”