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: 499.0 444.711560045 112% => OK
No of words: 134.0 116.580246914 115% => OK
Chars per words: 3.72388059701 3.81502700369 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.40232815919 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.80955915735 1.8723322822 97% => OK
Unique words: 79.0 76.076318743 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.589552238806 0.655143326166 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 168.3 141.574747475 119% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0466020429805 0.0738818816272 63% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.20202020202 125% => OK
Average paragraph length: 33.5 60.3232687746 56% => OK
STD paragraph length: 43.292609069 17.3634065801 249% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 11.3625 22.9064221017 50% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 14.9773385069 6.49597621602 231% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 31.1548821549 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.62068965517 4.0588447711 114% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.33441554827 3.18357895611 136% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.48586206897 1.46810986539 101% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.21266738551 1.01537252472 119% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 28.6644219978 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.34 5.28593714927 82% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1736 0.187982170178 92% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0877669641722 0.154715141812 57% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.43 35.408047138 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.271865671642 0.306236595465 89% => OK
STD word duration: 0.132930056294 0.198589292138 67% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 6.3164983165 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.71 5.14435465769 53% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.98 2.80480359147 106% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.45 45.0716498316 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.01 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.550055005501 0.637764685501 86% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.94829482948 2.58495923209 114% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.73817381738 1.68816559523 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.1685424101 2.15290372801 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.335609835821 0.343871460585 98% => OK

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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.

Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.