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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-18 | Tulips | 92.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-14 | lilly | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-01-26 | AK1988 | 66.50 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-17 | bishoy | 65.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-16 | Anonymous (not verified) | 93.33 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user bishoy
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- placebo effect 66
- Task 3 Letter in the Centerville College News The administration has plans to acquire a new sculpture for campus We should all oppose this plan The university s poor financial condition led it to increase the price for campus housing and tuition by 15 thi 90
- Using the points and examples from the lecture, explain two ways that advertising can negatively affect the environment. (TPO 48 - Question 6) 90
- introductory science courses average over 100 students
- What is your favourite book? Use reasons and details to support your answer 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 488.0 444.711560045 110% => OK
No of words: 118.0 116.580246914 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.13559322034 3.81502700369 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.29587325169 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.15073993667 1.8723322822 115% => OK
Unique words: 83.0 76.076318743 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.703389830508 0.655143326166 107% => OK
Syllable count: 152.1 141.574747475 107% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.125948352415 0.0738818816272 170% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 19.6666666667 60.3232687746 33% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 5.55777733351 17.3634065801 32% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.17 22.9064221017 31% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 1.19328677749 6.49597621602 18% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 20.0 31.1548821549 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.9 4.0588447711 145% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.7 3.18357895611 148% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.039 1.46810986539 139% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.36206424224 1.01537252472 134% => 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: 2.53 5.28593714927 48% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.158125 0.187982170178 84% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.11711205905 0.154715141812 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.03 35.408047138 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.313813559322 0.306236595465 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.184799109853 0.198589292138 93% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 6.3164983165 142% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.96 5.14435465769 135% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.05 2.80480359147 73% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.02 45.0716498316 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.956 1.00159221848 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.371920037192 0.637764685501 58% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.74291027429 2.58495923209 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.92933519293 1.68816559523 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.24142587092 2.15290372801 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.456656542373 0.343871460585 133% => 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.