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 thi

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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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Speakings by user Elena Cristina :

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 543.0 444.711560045 122% => OK
No of words: 133.0 116.580246914 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.08270676692 3.81502700369 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.39596269041 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30085016253 1.8723322822 123% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 76.076318743 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.684210526316 0.655143326166 104% => OK
Syllable count: 171.9 141.574747475 121% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0142717250513 0.0738818816272 19% => 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: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 66.5 60.3232687746 110% => OK
STD paragraph length: 32.5 17.3634065801 187% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 22.295 22.9064221017 97% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.885 6.49597621602 152% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 17.0 31.1548821549 55% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.82352941176 4.0588447711 193% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.98936413937 3.18357895611 220% => The length of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.57647058824 1.46810986539 175% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 2.03488384168 1.01537252472 200% => The duration of acoustic sentences changes so often.

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 15.0 28.6644219978 52% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.55 5.28593714927 67% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.236666666667 0.187982170178 126% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.15053976957 0.154715141812 97% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.55 35.408047138 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.28984962406 0.306236595465 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.173867917038 0.198589292138 88% => 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: 5.0 5.14435465769 97% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.99 2.80480359147 35% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.59 45.0716498316 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.990888888889 1.00159221848 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.336398295582 0.637764685501 53% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.98273155416 2.58495923209 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.04081632653 1.68816559523 121% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.36057068742 2.15290372801 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.36320981203 0.343871460585 106% => 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.