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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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| 2017-04-08 | Av9ash | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Kumari Soni
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 456.0 444.711560045 103% => OK
No of words: 128.0 116.580246914 110% => OK
Chars per words: 3.5625 3.81502700369 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.36358566101 3.28032121604 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.68054120747 1.8723322822 90% => OK
Unique words: 83.0 76.076318743 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6484375 0.655143326166 99% => OK
Syllable count: 151.2 141.574747475 107% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0302674316912 0.0738818816272 41% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 128.0 60.3232687746 212% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 48.46 22.9064221017 212% => 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: 36.0 31.1548821549 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.55555555556 4.0588447711 88% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.80321684701 3.18357895611 88% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.31722222222 1.46810986539 90% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.972447116846 1.01537252472 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 39.0 28.6644219978 136% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.77 5.28593714927 128% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.17358974359 0.187982170178 92% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.148280523809 0.154715141812 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.2 35.408047138 111% => OK
Average word duration: 0.30625 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.151657508881 0.198589292138 76% => 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: 4.56 5.14435465769 89% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.81 2.80480359147 29% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 48.46 45.0716498316 108% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.07688888889 1.00159221848 108% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.80478745357 0.637764685501 126% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.64135369377 2.58495923209 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.7127527858 1.68816559523 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.11734693878 2.15290372801 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.358168765625 0.343871460585 104% => 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.