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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-11 | chandr | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-09 | Udari | Check this speaking | |
| 2016-12-01 | JohnNYC | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-30 | cgms24 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-08 | Av9ash | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user chandr
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- Talk about a place you enjoyed going to or visiting when you were a child. Describe the place. Explain why you enjoyed it. 80
- Explicit Memories and Implicit MemoriesIn everyday life, when people speak of memory, they are almost always speaking about what psychologists would call explicit memories. An explicit memory is a conscious or intentional recollection, usually of facts, n 76
- TPO 01 - Question 5 94
- TPO 28 - Question 1Students have to complete various types of academic assignments in school.Choose one of the assignments below and explain why you think it is beneficial for students.1.Research paper2.Class presentation3.Group project 63
- Using points and examples from the talk, explain the difference between active and passive attention. 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 434.0 444.711560045 98% => OK
No of words: 117.0 116.580246914 100% => OK
Chars per words: 3.7094017094 3.81502700369 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.28886816799 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.79771854019 1.8723322822 96% => OK
Unique words: 78.0 76.076318743 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.666666666667 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 137.7 141.574747475 97% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0515460458273 0.0738818816272 70% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 58.5 60.3232687746 97% => OK
STD paragraph length: 49.5 17.3634065801 285% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 20.245 22.9064221017 88% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 16.785 6.49597621602 258% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 31.1548821549 112% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.34285714286 4.0588447711 82% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.04160800971 3.18357895611 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.10085714286 1.46810986539 75% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.554371569198 1.01537252472 55% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 28.6644219978 126% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.75 5.28593714927 147% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.215277777778 0.187982170178 115% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.187060389998 0.154715141812 121% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 29.9 35.408047138 84% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.255555555556 0.306236595465 83% => OK
STD word duration: 0.153953286535 0.198589292138 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.79 5.14435465769 74% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.27 2.80480359147 45% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 40.49 45.0716498316 90% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.899777777778 1.00159221848 90% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.889108421833 0.637764685501 139% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.88960237096 2.58495923209 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.92640158064 1.68816559523 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.60869565217 2.15290372801 121% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.219664529915 0.343871460585 64% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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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.