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 and why?

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 524.0 444.711560045 118% => OK
No of words: 127.0 116.580246914 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.12598425197 3.81502700369 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.35699682299 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.11105871854 1.8723322822 113% => OK
Unique words: 92.0 76.076318743 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.724409448819 0.655143326166 111% => OK
Syllable count: 176.4 141.574747475 125% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.21358024691 115% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0789430062732 0.0738818816272 107% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 127.0 60.3232687746 211% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 46.24 22.9064221017 202% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 31.1548821549 103% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.96875 4.0588447711 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.404816212 3.18357895611 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.409375 1.46810986539 96% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.17517003424 1.01537252472 116% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 28.6644219978 112% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.45 5.28593714927 141% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2328125 0.187982170178 124% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.170096192914 0.154715141812 110% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.1 35.408047138 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.276377952756 0.306236595465 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.183224268977 0.198589292138 92% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.81 5.14435465769 113% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.06 2.80480359147 73% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.24 45.0716498316 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02755555556 1.00159221848 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.692041522491 0.637764685501 109% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.74653979239 2.58495923209 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.98961937716 1.68816559523 118% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.62108262108 2.15290372801 122% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.310370622047 0.343871460585 90% => 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.