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7. Some schools have shorter academic quarters – around 8 weeks – while othersare longer – 10 to 20 weeks. Which would you prefer, and why?
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- TPO 12 Question 3
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- 66. Some people believe that same-sex schools are more effective, whereas other people believe that schools with both boys and girls are better. Which approach do you think is better and why? Include details and examples to support your explanation. 90
- Some people believe that first-year college students should live in a dormbuilding that homes only freshmen. Others may prefer the idea thatfirst-year students must live together with students in 2nd, 3rd, or even 4thgrade. Which opinion do you agree with 83
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 536.0 444.711560045 121% => OK
No of words: 143.0 116.580246914 123% => OK
Chars per words: 3.74825174825 3.81502700369 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.45807182446 3.28032121604 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.68277381512 1.8723322822 90% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 76.076318743 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.671328671329 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 171.0 141.574747475 121% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.148412615094 0.0738818816272 201% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 143.0 60.3232687746 237% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 45.76 22.9064221017 200% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 31.1548821549 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.95833333333 4.0588447711 147% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.10770786314 3.18357895611 129% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.8975 1.46810986539 129% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.16731618824 1.01537252472 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 28.6644219978 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.29 5.28593714927 62% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.149545454545 0.187982170178 80% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.114434470042 0.154715141812 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.31 35.408047138 114% => OK
Average word duration: 0.281888111888 0.306236595465 92% => OK
STD word duration: 0.142175657378 0.198589292138 72% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 6.3164983165 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.64 5.14435465769 51% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.48 2.80480359147 17% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.76 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01688888889 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.480769230769 0.637764685501 75% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.125 2.58495923209 121% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.0979020979 1.68816559523 124% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.38154304143 2.15290372801 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.421332923077 0.343871460585 123% => 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.