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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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| 2018-09-28 | daryash72 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-06-18 | wls1993 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-31 | donya goodarz | 23.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-09 | jeffhjz | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-06-25 | pakasai | Check this speaking |
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- Many people prefer watching music videos on television or the Internet rather than listening to the songs on their own. Which way of experiencing music do you think is preferable and why? 90
- Some students like to listen to music while they are studying. Others prefer a very quiet atmosphere for their study. Which do you prefer? 90
- Do you like to be taught by experienced teachers or by new teachers?
- Do you think it is better to study a lone or study with friends? Use reasons to support response. 83
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 500.0 444.711560045 112% => OK
No of words: 132.0 116.580246914 113% => OK
Chars per words: 3.78787878788 3.81502700369 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38956122427 3.28032121604 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.93856516383 1.8723322822 104% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 76.076318743 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.666666666667 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 160.2 141.574747475 113% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0676197335557 0.0738818816272 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 66.0 60.3232687746 109% => OK
STD paragraph length: 51.0 17.3634065801 294% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 22.565 22.9064221017 99% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 16.585 6.49597621602 255% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 31.1548821549 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.5 4.0588447711 136% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.0 3.18357895611 157% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.85333333333 1.46810986539 126% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.4905302934 1.01537252472 147% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 28.6644219978 80% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.48 5.28593714927 66% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.151304347826 0.187982170178 80% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0982146871079 0.154715141812 63% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.6 35.408047138 112% => OK
Average word duration: 0.3 0.306236595465 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.172828518971 0.198589292138 87% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.77 5.14435465769 112% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.48 2.80480359147 17% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.13 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00288888889 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.509638821183 0.637764685501 80% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.9248836694 2.58495923209 113% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.94992244627 1.68816559523 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.22222222222 2.15290372801 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.446517545455 0.343871460585 130% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.