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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: 611.0 444.711560045 137% => OK
No of words: 138.0 116.580246914 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.42753623188 3.81502700369 116% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.42743929552 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.431340303 1.8723322822 130% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 76.076318743 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608695652174 0.655143326166 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 194.4 141.574747475 137% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.21358024691 115% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.140146302846 0.0738818816272 190% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 46.0 60.3232687746 76% => OK
STD paragraph length: 21.6487105082 17.3634065801 125% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.2866666667 22.9064221017 67% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 6.83531190868 6.49597621602 105% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 13.0 31.1548821549 42% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 10.6153846154 4.0588447711 262% => The average length of sentences is long.
STD acoustic sentence length: 11.1185116709 3.18357895611 349% => The length of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 3.46230769231 1.46810986539 236% => The duration of acoustic sentences is too long.
STD acoustic sentences duration: 3.27320627061 1.01537252472 322% => 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: 9.0 28.6644219978 31% => Need to have little pauses between words/sentences.
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.27 5.28593714927 43% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.252222222222 0.187982170178 134% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.133398132402 0.154715141812 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.88 35.408047138 115% => OK
Average word duration: 0.296231884058 0.306236595465 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.187775702224 0.198589292138 95% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.09 5.14435465769 80% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.2 2.80480359147 43% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.86 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01911111111 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.196249454863 0.637764685501 31% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.00915830789 2.58495923209 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.83166157872 1.68816559523 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.05479452055 2.15290372801 95% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.468330666667 0.343871460585 136% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.