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TPO 02 - Question 2
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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2018-08-08 | Adamma | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
2016-04-08 | abdilrahman | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
2018-09-13 | mgrajapt | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
2018-06-16 | pooria | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
2017-08-01 | Maryabb | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Some students attend college full-time, while others attend college part-time. Which do you think is better? Explain why. 60
- Some people believe that primary schools should no longer teach children how to write by hand, and instead should spend time teaching them how to type on a computer. Other people believe that it is still important for schools to teach children to have goo 80
- Some people believe that television has had a positive influence on society. Others believe it has had a negative influence on society. Which do you agree with and why? Use details and examples to explain your opinion. 80
- TPO14- task2Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?One of the best ways to learn is by making mistakes.Use specific examples and details to support your opinion. 80
- 23. To find out about a course subject, would you prefer to go and ask a teacherabout it, or talk to a student who has already taken the subject? 71
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 400.0 444.711560045 90% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 102.0 116.580246914 87% => 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: 3.92156862745 3.81502700369 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.17797182781 3.28032121604 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.85073527789 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 70.0 76.076318743 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.686274509804 0.655143326166 105% => OK
Syllable count: 126.0 141.574747475 89% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0929469458344 0.0738818816272 126% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 10.0 3.20202020202 312% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 10.3 60.3232687746 17% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 6.05061980296 17.3634065801 35% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 4.399 22.9064221017 19% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.172737674 6.49597621602 33% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 37.0 31.1548821549 119% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.75675675676 4.0588447711 68% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.9229117196 3.18357895611 60% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.05864864865 1.46810986539 72% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.646329186323 1.01537252472 64% => 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: 6.05 5.28593714927 114% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1890625 0.187982170178 101% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.157288734796 0.154715141812 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 31.74 35.408047138 90% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.311176470588 0.306236595465 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.166134212916 0.198589292138 84% => 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: 4.73 5.14435465769 92% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.74 2.80480359147 169% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.99 45.0716498316 98% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.977555555556 1.00159221848 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.727438054103 0.637764685501 114% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.31870879745 2.58495923209 90% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.59127074335 1.68816559523 94% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.20541902962 2.15290372801 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.310040019608 0.343871460585 90% => 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.