TPO 04 - Question 2 Many universities now offer academic courses over the Internet. However, some people still prefer learning in traditional classrooms. Which do you think is better? Explain why.

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Many universities now offer academic courses over the Internet. However, some people still prefer learning in traditional classrooms. Which do you think is better? Explain why.
Submitted by lilly on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 10:13
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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Q2

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 603.0 444.711560045 136% => OK
No of words: 147.0 116.580246914 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.10204081633 3.81502700369 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.48200454523 3.28032121604 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.13724564904 1.8723322822 114% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 76.076318743 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.666666666667 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 191.7 141.574747475 135% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0585578744576 0.0738818816272 79% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.20202020202 219% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 21.0 60.3232687746 35% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 16.4924225025 17.3634065801 95% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.86 22.9064221017 30% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.04923190764 6.49597621602 78% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 31.1548821549 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.65384615385 4.0588447711 139% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.20569492742 3.18357895611 132% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.68038461538 1.46810986539 114% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.929580057252 1.01537252472 92% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 19.0 28.6644219978 66% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.55 5.28593714927 86% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.239473684211 0.187982170178 127% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.197443494494 0.154715141812 128% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.7 35.408047138 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.249659863946 0.306236595465 82% => OK
STD word duration: 0.140951166176 0.198589292138 71% => 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: 1.57 5.14435465769 31% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.0 2.80480359147 178% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 48.02 45.0716498316 107% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.06711111111 1.00159221848 107% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.39566847147 0.637764685501 62% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.0612244898 2.58495923209 118% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.04081632653 1.68816559523 121% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.67029972752 2.15290372801 124% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.312410755102 0.343871460585 91% => OK

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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.