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 and why?

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 496.0 444.711560045 112% => OK
No of words: 118.0 116.580246914 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.20338983051 3.81502700369 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.29587325169 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.18065190857 1.8723322822 116% => OK
Unique words: 79.0 76.076318743 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.669491525424 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 162.0 141.574747475 114% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.21358024691 115% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.037477775457 0.0738818816272 51% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 39.3333333333 60.3232687746 65% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.471404520791 17.3634065801 3% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.7 22.9064221017 69% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 2.7131285754 6.49597621602 42% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 36.0 31.1548821549 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.27777777778 4.0588447711 81% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.98711223528 3.18357895611 94% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.27027777778 1.46810986539 87% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.877092691513 1.01537252472 86% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 28.6644219978 112% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.17 5.28593714927 117% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1928125 0.187982170178 103% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.143858315171 0.154715141812 93% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.66 35.408047138 106% => OK
Average word duration: 0.319152542373 0.306236595465 104% => OK
STD word duration: 0.230009492329 0.198589292138 116% => 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: 6.5 5.14435465769 126% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.69 2.80480359147 60% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.1 45.0716498316 105% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.04666666667 1.00159221848 105% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.67940552017 0.637764685501 107% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.50530785563 2.58495923209 97% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.67728237792 1.68816559523 99% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.09771640998 2.15290372801 97% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.220087771186 0.343871460585 64% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.

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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.