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11. A sociology class requires that students expose themselves to day-to-day work in a local social service agency. To do this, students can choose to volunteer at one specific agency, or they can choose to visit two or three agencies and write up their observations. Which would you choose, and why?
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2016-10-14 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-27 | prayashpathak | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-16 | ying.ma | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 572.0 444.711560045 129% => OK
No of words: 140.0 116.580246914 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.08571428571 3.81502700369 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.43979062825 3.28032121604 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.19247320976 1.8723322822 117% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 76.076318743 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.7 0.655143326166 107% => OK
Syllable count: 182.7 141.574747475 129% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0809767492562 0.0738818816272 110% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.20202020202 125% => OK
Average paragraph length: 35.0 60.3232687746 58% => OK
STD paragraph length: 18.6279360102 17.3634065801 107% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.07 22.9064221017 48% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 6.2511318975 6.49597621602 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 30.0 31.1548821549 96% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.66666666667 4.0588447711 115% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.7535168694 3.18357895611 118% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.41166666667 1.46810986539 96% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.926520671953 1.01537252472 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 28.0 28.6644219978 98% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.08 5.28593714927 77% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.145714285714 0.187982170178 78% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.100336169644 0.154715141812 65% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.46 35.408047138 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.260428571429 0.306236595465 85% => OK
STD word duration: 0.145336414808 0.198589292138 73% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 6.3164983165 32% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.4 5.14435465769 27% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.02 2.80480359147 72% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.28 45.0716498316 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.984 1.00159221848 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.63233965673 0.637764685501 99% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.16169828365 2.58495923209 122% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.21318879855 1.68816559523 131% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.68787712562 2.15290372801 125% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.333866421429 0.343871460585 97% => 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.