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

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 483.0 444.711560045 109% => OK
No of words: 121.0 116.580246914 104% => OK
Chars per words: 3.99173553719 3.81502700369 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.31662479036 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.21376560298 1.8723322822 118% => OK
Unique words: 80.0 76.076318743 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.661157024793 0.655143326166 101% => 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: 0.0440630157823 0.0738818816272 60% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.20202020202 219% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 17.2857142857 60.3232687746 29% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 9.89537100603 17.3634065801 57% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.47142857143 22.9064221017 28% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.20715462931 6.49597621602 49% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 25.0 31.1548821549 80% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.84 4.0588447711 119% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.93629267205 3.18357895611 124% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.7204 1.46810986539 117% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.18154637658 1.01537252472 116% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 20.0 28.6644219978 70% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.24 5.28593714927 80% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.212 0.187982170178 113% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.138224455145 0.154715141812 89% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.89 35.408047138 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.304876033058 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.190463183586 0.198589292138 96% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 6.3164983165 158% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.54 5.14435465769 147% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.69 2.80480359147 96% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.3 45.0716498316 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00666666667 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.441501103753 0.637764685501 69% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.6710816777 2.58495923209 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.76600441501 1.68816559523 105% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.16860937924 2.15290372801 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.363266826446 0.343871460585 106% => OK

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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.