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TPO 02 - Question 2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-01 | Maryabb | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-24 | bishoy | 75.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-08-18 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-08-09 | Anonymous (not verified) | Check this speaking | |
| 2019-04-22 | Malaak | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user kaziass
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Why or why not? Use details and examples to support your answer.Listening to music while studying is a bad idea, because it makes the time spent less effective. 90
- Would you prefer to do a course that involves lectures and tutorials onsite, or a course that is conducted online via distance learning? 66
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?In the future, people will read fewer books than they do toady.Use specific examples and details to support your opinion. 90
- TPO 34 - Question 6 83
- Do you prefer to live in places that have the same weather or live in areas where the weather changes several times a year? Use details and examples to support your explanation. 83
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 504.0 444.711560045 113% => OK
No of words: 130.0 116.580246914 112% => OK
Chars per words: 3.87692307692 3.81502700369 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.37664837539 3.28032121604 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.85229746994 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 92.0 76.076318743 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.707692307692 0.655143326166 108% => OK
Syllable count: 162.9 141.574747475 115% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0854841925867 0.0738818816272 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 65.0 60.3232687746 108% => OK
STD paragraph length: 46.0 17.3634065801 265% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 22.5 22.9064221017 98% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 14.79 6.49597621602 228% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 31.1548821549 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.41666666667 4.0588447711 133% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.51771205614 3.18357895611 142% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.82916666667 1.46810986539 125% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.64743972238 1.01537252472 162% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 24.0 28.6644219978 84% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.41 5.28593714927 83% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.18375 0.187982170178 98% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.140380806499 0.154715141812 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.35 35.408047138 108% => OK
Average word duration: 0.295 0.306236595465 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.196508954582 0.198589292138 99% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.52 5.14435465769 127% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.67 2.80480359147 24% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.0 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.0 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.533333333333 0.637764685501 84% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.88888888889 2.58495923209 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.04444444444 1.68816559523 121% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.39895697523 2.15290372801 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.247204107692 0.343871460585 72% => 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.