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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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- TPO 29 - Question 6 75
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- Some people enjoy living in a location that has a warm climate all year. Other people like to live in a place where the seasons change. Which type of climate do you prefer and why? 83
- Your city is about to build a new factory so as to provide more job opportunities for citizens; however, the factory might lead to environmental pollution to some extent. Do you agree or disagree to build such a new factory? 80
- Do you think that eating healthy food is easier or more difficult today than it was 40 or 50 years ago? Use examples and details to support your answer. 81
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 403.0 444.711560045 91% => OK
No of words: 99.0 116.580246914 85% => 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: 4.07070707071 3.81502700369 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.15434214553 3.28032121604 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.79928451129 1.8723322822 96% => OK
Unique words: 74.0 76.076318743 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.747474747475 0.655143326166 114% => OK
Syllable count: 118.8 141.574747475 84% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.104140639332 0.0738818816272 141% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 33.0 60.3232687746 55% => OK
STD paragraph length: 16.3910544709 17.3634065801 94% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.4266666667 22.9064221017 63% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 7.67822172699 6.49597621602 118% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 31.1548821549 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.41379310345 4.0588447711 84% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.63291160949 3.18357895611 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.45068965517 1.46810986539 99% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.842782464813 1.01537252472 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 28.6644219978 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.25 5.28593714927 118% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.25 0.187982170178 133% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.167809415707 0.154715141812 108% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 34.3 35.408047138 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.346464646465 0.306236595465 113% => OK
STD word duration: 0.175736908108 0.198589292138 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.54 5.14435465769 88% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.45 2.80480359147 52% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.28 45.0716498316 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.961777777778 1.00159221848 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.577634011091 0.637764685501 91% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.28743068392 2.58495923209 88% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70979667283 1.68816559523 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.15743440233 2.15290372801 100% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.395273717172 0.343871460585 115% => OK
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.