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The use of computers to present learning programs to facilitate and/or evaluate learning. Computer-based instructional programs for individual learners. The term most often refers to drill and practice, tutorial, or simulation exercises used as stand-alone instruction or as supplementary materials. A more recent term is e-learning.  

A plan to provide medical care for all people, required by law and administered by state or national governments.  

Legally mandated education for all students within certain age groups.  

The tendency to be systematic and controlled, to cling to familiar routines, and to avoid spontaneity and ambiguity.  

A personality characterized by rigidity, over-inhibition, and over-conscientiousness.  

A response to frustration in which a person partially relinquishes his or her original goal often involves a lowering of one’s level of aspiration or the acceptance of substitute goals, compromise formation.  

A defense mechanism in which an act or a thought expresses two, often, incompatible impulses, compromise reaction.  

In botany, a kind of plant fossil resulting from the weight of accumulated sediments upon plant organs. The act of squeezing or pressing. A serious condition in which the brain is compressed by blood or cerebrospinal fluid accumulating in it or by a fractured skull. A squeezing together; the condition of being pressed together. It…

A general secondary school offering programs in both vocational and general academic subjects, but in which the majority of students are not enrolled in programs of vocational education.