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 t

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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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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 517.0 444.711560045 116% => OK
No of words: 136.0 116.580246914 117% => OK
Chars per words: 3.80147058824 3.81502700369 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.41495297035 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.09978939049 1.8723322822 112% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 76.076318743 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.705882352941 0.655143326166 108% => OK
Syllable count: 164.7 141.574747475 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0351437307683 0.0738818816272 48% => 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: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 136.0 60.3232687746 225% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 47.78 22.9064221017 209% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 31.1548821549 100% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.38709677419 4.0588447711 108% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.20963689389 3.18357895611 101% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.48580645161 1.46810986539 101% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.915556499881 1.01537252472 90% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 26.0 28.6644219978 91% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.98 5.28593714927 75% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.153076923077 0.187982170178 81% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.119317586258 0.154715141812 77% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.77 35.408047138 107% => OK
Average word duration: 0.277720588235 0.306236595465 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.155482961577 0.198589292138 78% => 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: 4.23 5.14435465769 82% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.28 2.80480359147 153% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.78 45.0716498316 106% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.06177777778 1.00159221848 106% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.54416073671 0.637764685501 85% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.84637923817 2.58495923209 110% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.00920887401 1.68816559523 119% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.54169976172 2.15290372801 118% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.274744154412 0.343871460585 80% => OK

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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.

Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.