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 t

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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

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 367.0 444.711560045 83% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 106.0 116.580246914 91% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.46226415094 3.81502700369 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.2086804361 3.28032121604 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.64932535265 1.8723322822 88% => OK
Unique words: 75.0 76.076318743 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.707547169811 0.655143326166 108% => OK
Syllable count: 119.7 141.574747475 85% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.057687247592 0.0738818816272 78% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 3.20202020202 250% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 13.375 60.3232687746 22% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 15.7871585474 17.3634065801 91% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.34625 22.9064221017 23% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.67017622632 6.49597621602 87% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 37.0 31.1548821549 119% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.86486486486 4.0588447711 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.53795152726 3.18357895611 80% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.06 1.46810986539 72% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.727212374646 1.01537252472 72% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 28.6644219978 105% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.58 5.28593714927 106% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.186 0.187982170178 99% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.140370937163 0.154715141812 91% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 31.82 35.408047138 90% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.300188679245 0.306236595465 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.122227603436 0.198589292138 62% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 6.3164983165 16% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.77 5.14435465769 15% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.93 2.80480359147 140% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 42.77 45.0716498316 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.950444444444 1.00159221848 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.701426233341 0.637764685501 110% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.47837269114 2.58495923209 96% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.75356558335 1.68816559523 104% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.35700817096 2.15290372801 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.347947518868 0.343871460585 101% => OK

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.