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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-28 | daryash72 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-03-22 | alta | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-11-03 | EugeneDubinchuk | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-12 | Tulips | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-05 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Theshani
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- If you were given the choice of a school or work assignment, would you prefer to write long or give speech in front of a large group of people? 60
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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: 127.0 116.580246914 109% => OK
Chars per words: 3.90551181102 3.81502700369 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.35699682299 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.15696298183 1.8723322822 115% => OK
Unique words: 86.0 76.076318743 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.677165354331 0.655143326166 103% => OK
Syllable count: 161.1 141.574747475 114% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0501678500745 0.0738818816272 68% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 3.20202020202 250% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 16.25 60.3232687746 27% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 18.5926732882 17.3634065801 107% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.7975 22.9064221017 30% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 7.3694856503 6.49597621602 113% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 40.0 31.1548821549 128% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.175 4.0588447711 78% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.11999410377 3.18357895611 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.17625 1.46810986539 80% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.696508031181 1.01537252472 69% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 40.0 28.6644219978 140% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.36 5.28593714927 196% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.259 0.187982170178 138% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.329672564828 0.154715141812 213% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.24 35.408047138 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.285354330709 0.306236595465 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.184180651115 0.198589292138 93% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.17 5.14435465769 120% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.03 2.80480359147 215% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 54.38 45.0716498316 121% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.20844444444 1.00159221848 121% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.735564545789 0.637764685501 115% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.33541743288 2.58495923209 90% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.58146377345 1.68816559523 94% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.37306843267 2.15290372801 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.357597055118 0.343871460585 104% => OK
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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.