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TPO 02 - Question 2
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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2016-07-30 | minaaminaa33 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-03-27 | archimo | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-10 | comando | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-03-22 | alta | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-28 | daryash72 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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- weathering 90
- Some people like to keep a private diary which they don't show to other people. Other people like to start things like online blogs, where other people can read the posts and make comments about them. Which would you prefer to start - a private diary 66
- Do you like to be taught by experienced teachers or by new teachers?
- TPO 54 - Question 4 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 504.0 444.711560045 113% => OK
No of words: 130.0 116.580246914 112% => OK
Chars per words: 3.87692307692 3.81502700369 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.37664837539 3.28032121604 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.85229746994 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 92.0 76.076318743 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.707692307692 0.655143326166 108% => OK
Syllable count: 162.9 141.574747475 115% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0854841925867 0.0738818816272 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 65.0 60.3232687746 108% => OK
STD paragraph length: 46.0 17.3634065801 265% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 22.5 22.9064221017 98% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 14.79 6.49597621602 228% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 31.1548821549 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.41666666667 4.0588447711 133% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.51771205614 3.18357895611 142% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.82916666667 1.46810986539 125% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.64743972238 1.01537252472 162% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 24.0 28.6644219978 84% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.41 5.28593714927 83% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.18375 0.187982170178 98% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.140380806499 0.154715141812 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.35 35.408047138 108% => OK
Average word duration: 0.295 0.306236595465 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.196508954582 0.198589292138 99% => 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: 6.52 5.14435465769 127% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.67 2.80480359147 24% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.0 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.0 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.533333333333 0.637764685501 84% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.88888888889 2.58495923209 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.04444444444 1.68816559523 121% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.39895697523 2.15290372801 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.247204107692 0.343871460585 72% => 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.