Many universities now offer academic courses over the Internet. However, some people still prefer learning in traditional classrooms. Which do you think is better? Explain why.

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Many universities now offer academic courses over the Internet. However, some people still prefer learning in traditional classrooms. Which do you think is better? Explain why.

Submitted by thakannv on Tue, 11/19/2019 - 16:03
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 465.0 444.711560045 105% => OK
No of words: 122.0 116.580246914 105% => OK
Chars per words: 3.81147540984 3.81502700369 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.32345618554 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.88754314776 1.8723322822 101% => OK
Unique words: 80.0 76.076318743 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.655737704918 0.655143326166 100% => OK
Syllable count: 149.4 141.574747475 106% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0747149146199 0.0738818816272 101% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 122.0 60.3232687746 202% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 46.54 22.9064221017 203% => 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: 30.0 31.1548821549 96% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.06666666667 4.0588447711 100% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.49221356099 3.18357895611 110% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.516 1.46810986539 103% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.0855278286 1.01537252472 107% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 31.0 28.6644219978 108% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.31 5.28593714927 119% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.203548387097 0.187982170178 108% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.141456670377 0.154715141812 91% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.85 35.408047138 107% => OK
Average word duration: 0.310245901639 0.306236595465 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.16982856889 0.198589292138 86% => 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: 5.1 5.14435465769 99% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.84 2.80480359147 30% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.54 45.0716498316 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.03422222222 1.00159221848 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.666093682853 0.637764685501 104% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.62140094542 2.58495923209 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.71895143962 1.68816559523 102% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.11360634082 2.15290372801 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.4534205 0.343871460585 132% => 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.