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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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| 2018-01-09 | mdnpoudel | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-03-22 | alta | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-11 | chandr | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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- TPO 52 - Question 2 71
- When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why? 70
- TPO 38 - Question 4 55
- TPO 34 - Q 3 68
- tpo 53 Q6 78
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 403.0 444.711560045 91% => OK
No of words: 99.0 116.580246914 85% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 4.07070707071 3.81502700369 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.15434214553 3.28032121604 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.79928451129 1.8723322822 96% => OK
Unique words: 74.0 76.076318743 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.747474747475 0.655143326166 114% => OK
Syllable count: 118.8 141.574747475 84% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.104140639332 0.0738818816272 141% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 33.0 60.3232687746 55% => OK
STD paragraph length: 16.3910544709 17.3634065801 94% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.4266666667 22.9064221017 63% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 7.67822172699 6.49597621602 118% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 31.1548821549 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.41379310345 4.0588447711 84% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.63291160949 3.18357895611 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.45068965517 1.46810986539 99% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.842782464813 1.01537252472 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 28.6644219978 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.25 5.28593714927 118% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.25 0.187982170178 133% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.167809415707 0.154715141812 108% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 34.3 35.408047138 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.346464646465 0.306236595465 113% => OK
STD word duration: 0.175736908108 0.198589292138 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.54 5.14435465769 88% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.45 2.80480359147 52% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.28 45.0716498316 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.961777777778 1.00159221848 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.577634011091 0.637764685501 91% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.28743068392 2.58495923209 88% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70979667283 1.68816559523 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.15743440233 2.15290372801 100% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.395273717172 0.343871460585 115% => OK
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.