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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-30 | minaaminaa33 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-08-01 | Maryabb | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-24 | bishoy | 75.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-30 | mehrnazsadr | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-02 | kaziass | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Raed Mudawar
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?In the future, people will read fewer books than they do toady.Use specific examples and details to support your opinion. 30
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 469.0 444.711560045 105% => OK
No of words: 116.0 116.580246914 100% => 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: 4.04310344828 3.81502700369 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.28181803491 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.04008215428 1.8723322822 109% => OK
Unique words: 80.0 76.076318743 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.689655172414 0.655143326166 105% => OK
Syllable count: 153.0 141.574747475 108% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0563145192666 0.0738818816272 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 39.0 60.3232687746 65% => OK
STD paragraph length: 53.7401153702 17.3634065801 310% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 15.87 22.9064221017 69% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 21.8374357469 6.49597621602 336% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 31.1548821549 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.51515151515 4.0588447711 87% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.36285923511 3.18357895611 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.39181818182 1.46810986539 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.737162679079 1.01537252472 73% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 38.0 28.6644219978 133% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.2 5.28593714927 98% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.136842105263 0.187982170178 73% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.141087976718 0.154715141812 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.79 35.408047138 112% => OK
Average word duration: 0.343017241379 0.306236595465 112% => OK
STD word duration: 0.221126503923 0.198589292138 111% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 11.0 6.3164983165 174% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.93 5.14435465769 174% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.05 2.80480359147 37% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.61 45.0716498316 106% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.058 1.00159221848 106% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.798151648813 0.637764685501 125% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.43646292796 2.58495923209 94% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.68031926066 1.68816559523 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.01055541593 2.15290372801 93% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.376322905172 0.343871460585 109% => 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.