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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-28 | kaziass | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-10 | Toefl2016 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-05-29 | aceit | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-19 | rahul chauhan | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-06-16 | pooria | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user cgms24
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- What characteristics do you think make someone a good parent? Explain why these characteristics are important to you. 80
- Using the example from the lecture, explain what behavior modification is and how it works. 50
- What do you miss most about your home when you are away? Use specific details in your explanation. 90
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement Why or why not Use details and examples to explain your answer It is more important to study math or science than it is to study art or literature 35
- Talk about a place you enjoyed going to or visiting when you were a child Describe the place Explain why you enjoyed it 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 603.0 444.711560045 136% => OK
No of words: 165.0 116.580246914 142% => OK
Chars per words: 3.65454545455 3.81502700369 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58402463422 3.28032121604 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.73957342543 1.8723322822 93% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 76.076318743 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527272727273 0.655143326166 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 190.8 141.574747475 135% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0231526457655 0.0738818816272 31% => 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: 5.0 3.20202020202 156% => OK
Average paragraph length: 33.0 60.3232687746 55% => OK
STD paragraph length: 22.1990990808 17.3634065801 128% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.452 22.9064221017 50% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 7.4758796138 6.49597621602 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 52.0 31.1548821549 167% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.17307692308 4.0588447711 78% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.23871504581 3.18357895611 102% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.03788461538 1.46810986539 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.879294596075 1.01537252472 87% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 48.0 28.6644219978 167% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.03 5.28593714927 171% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.188125 0.187982170178 100% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.166629032209 0.154715141812 108% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.11 35.408047138 122% => OK
Average word duration: 0.261272727273 0.306236595465 85% => OK
STD word duration: 0.136280297766 0.198589292138 69% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 6.3164983165 47% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.96 5.14435465769 38% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.9 2.80480359147 103% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.26 45.0716498316 127% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.27244444444 1.00159221848 127% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.838281522878 0.637764685501 131% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.88159273489 2.58495923209 111% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.51938526022 1.68816559523 90% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.01809324983 2.15290372801 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.255435387879 0.343871460585 74% => 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.