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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: 434.0 444.711560045 98% => OK
No of words: 117.0 116.580246914 100% => OK
Chars per words: 3.7094017094 3.81502700369 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.28886816799 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.79771854019 1.8723322822 96% => OK
Unique words: 78.0 76.076318743 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.666666666667 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 137.7 141.574747475 97% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0515460458273 0.0738818816272 70% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 58.5 60.3232687746 97% => OK
STD paragraph length: 49.5 17.3634065801 285% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 20.245 22.9064221017 88% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 16.785 6.49597621602 258% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 31.1548821549 112% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.34285714286 4.0588447711 82% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.04160800971 3.18357895611 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.10085714286 1.46810986539 75% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.554371569198 1.01537252472 55% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 28.6644219978 126% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.75 5.28593714927 147% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.215277777778 0.187982170178 115% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.187060389998 0.154715141812 121% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 29.9 35.408047138 84% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.255555555556 0.306236595465 83% => OK
STD word duration: 0.153953286535 0.198589292138 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.79 5.14435465769 74% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.27 2.80480359147 45% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 40.49 45.0716498316 90% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.899777777778 1.00159221848 90% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.889108421833 0.637764685501 139% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.88960237096 2.58495923209 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.92640158064 1.68816559523 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.60869565217 2.15290372801 121% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.219664529915 0.343871460585 64% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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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.