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9. Most schools support extra-curricular activities, such as clubs and sports teams.Some schools pay for these activities, some require that students pay, and someuse a mix of school funds and student payments. Which do you think is preferable,and why?
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| 2016-05-25 | DubinchukEugene | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2020-01-14 | brk1 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-19 | Kumari Soni | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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- TPO 43 - Question 2 Some students attend college full-time, while others attend college part-time. Which do you think is better? Explain why. 80
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 470.0 444.711560045 106% => OK
No of words: 121.0 116.580246914 104% => OK
Chars per words: 3.88429752066 3.81502700369 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.31662479036 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.90341182424 1.8723322822 102% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 76.076318743 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.694214876033 0.655143326166 106% => OK
Syllable count: 140.4 141.574747475 99% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.247304802279 0.0738818816272 335% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 3.20202020202 156% => OK
Average paragraph length: 24.4 60.3232687746 40% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 23.8293936138 17.3634065801 137% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 10.61 22.9064221017 46% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.82890227848 6.49597621602 151% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 28.0 31.1548821549 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.32142857143 4.0588447711 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.22992228377 3.18357895611 101% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.75785714286 1.46810986539 120% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.05620397497 1.01537252472 104% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 28.6644219978 105% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.87 5.28593714927 149% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.262333333333 0.187982170178 140% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.201389892718 0.154715141812 130% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.36 35.408047138 114% => OK
Average word duration: 0.333553719008 0.306236595465 109% => OK
STD word duration: 0.171101726564 0.198589292138 86% => 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: 7.36 5.14435465769 143% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.26 2.80480359147 116% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 53.05 45.0716498316 118% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.17888888889 1.00159221848 118% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.565504241282 0.637764685501 89% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.2808671065 2.58495923209 88% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.58341187559 1.68816559523 94% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.08126858276 2.15290372801 97% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.401479661157 0.343871460585 117% => 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.