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Some college students choose to take courses in a variety of subject areas in order to get a broad education. Others choose to focus on a single subject area in order to have a deeper understanding of that area. Which approach to course selection do you think is better for students and why?
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2020-04-09 | daraylucy | 40.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-23 | sanjuc | 91.50 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-03-22 | bakerazeem | 100.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-02-02 | mursal.dawodi | Check this speaking | |
| 2017-05-26 | ying.ma | 95.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- What is the most efficient type of transportation in your country? Explain why you think it is efficient. Include specific reasons or examples. 83
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is important to remember and learn from the past. Use details and examples to explain your opinion. 66
- Describe an important place in your life. Tell what the place is like and explain why it is important to you. Include details and examples to support your explanation. 80
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 543.0 444.711560045 122% => OK
No of words: 133.0 116.580246914 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.08270676692 3.81502700369 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.39596269041 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30085016253 1.8723322822 123% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 76.076318743 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.684210526316 0.655143326166 104% => OK
Syllable count: 171.9 141.574747475 121% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0142717250513 0.0738818816272 19% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 66.5 60.3232687746 110% => OK
STD paragraph length: 32.5 17.3634065801 187% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 22.295 22.9064221017 97% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.885 6.49597621602 152% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 17.0 31.1548821549 55% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.82352941176 4.0588447711 193% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.98936413937 3.18357895611 220% => The length of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.57647058824 1.46810986539 175% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 2.03488384168 1.01537252472 200% => The duration of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 15.0 28.6644219978 52% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.55 5.28593714927 67% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.236666666667 0.187982170178 126% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.15053976957 0.154715141812 97% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.55 35.408047138 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.28984962406 0.306236595465 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.173867917038 0.198589292138 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.0 5.14435465769 97% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.99 2.80480359147 35% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.59 45.0716498316 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.990888888889 1.00159221848 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.336398295582 0.637764685501 53% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.98273155416 2.58495923209 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.04081632653 1.68816559523 121% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.36057068742 2.15290372801 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.36320981203 0.343871460585 106% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.