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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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2017-05-29 | aceit | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Kumari Soni
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- TPO 43 - Question 2 Some students attend college full-time, while others attend college part-time. Which do you think is better? Explain why. 80
- Tpo 53When some people have a little extra money, they like to spend it right away on something they enjoy. Others prefer to save the extra money. Which do you like to do? Explain why. 68
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 456.0 444.711560045 103% => OK
No of words: 128.0 116.580246914 110% => OK
Chars per words: 3.5625 3.81502700369 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.36358566101 3.28032121604 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.68054120747 1.8723322822 90% => OK
Unique words: 83.0 76.076318743 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6484375 0.655143326166 99% => OK
Syllable count: 151.2 141.574747475 107% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0302674316912 0.0738818816272 41% => 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: 128.0 60.3232687746 212% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 48.46 22.9064221017 212% => 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: 36.0 31.1548821549 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.55555555556 4.0588447711 88% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.80321684701 3.18357895611 88% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.31722222222 1.46810986539 90% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.972447116846 1.01537252472 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 39.0 28.6644219978 136% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.77 5.28593714927 128% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.17358974359 0.187982170178 92% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.148280523809 0.154715141812 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.2 35.408047138 111% => OK
Average word duration: 0.30625 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.151657508881 0.198589292138 76% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.56 5.14435465769 89% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.81 2.80480359147 29% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 48.46 45.0716498316 108% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.07688888889 1.00159221848 108% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.80478745357 0.637764685501 126% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.64135369377 2.58495923209 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.7127527858 1.68816559523 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.11734693878 2.15290372801 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.358168765625 0.343871460585 104% => 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.