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 thi

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 491.0 444.711560045 110% => OK
No of words: 121.0 116.580246914 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.05785123967 3.81502700369 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.31662479036 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.11760632315 1.8723322822 113% => OK
Unique words: 82.0 76.076318743 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.677685950413 0.655143326166 103% => OK
Syllable count: 157.5 141.574747475 111% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0480951125369 0.0738818816272 65% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 60.5 60.3232687746 100% => OK
STD paragraph length: 12.5 17.3634065801 72% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 22.495 22.9064221017 98% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 6.615 6.49597621602 102% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 19.0 31.1548821549 61% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.36842105263 4.0588447711 157% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.23283563429 3.18357895611 133% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.25210526316 1.46810986539 153% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.16420552964 1.01537252472 115% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 16.0 28.6644219978 56% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.33 5.28593714927 63% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.208125 0.187982170178 111% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.185378624375 0.154715141812 120% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.51 35.408047138 106% => OK
Average word duration: 0.31 0.306236595465 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.171054097093 0.198589292138 86% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.58 5.14435465769 89% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.67 2.80480359147 95% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.99 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.999777777778 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.355634585463 0.637764685501 56% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.68948655257 2.58495923209 104% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.8226272505 1.68816559523 108% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.18608371101 2.15290372801 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.327602371901 0.343871460585 95% => 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.