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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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| 2019-09-02 | kaziass | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2016-10-14 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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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? 90
- TPO 11 - Question 6 90
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- TPO 12 Question 3
- 65. Some universities have large, lecture-based classes, whereas others have smaller, discussion-based classes. Which do you think is better and why? Include details and examples to support your explanation. 90
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.