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Some professors give final grades based on numerous small quizzes; homework, midterm and final exams. Others give final grades based on one or two examinations. Which do you think is a better representation of a student ability.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-19 | Ami | 71.00 | Check this speaking |
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- The two people talk about the man's problem. Describe the problem and state which of the two solutions you prefer and why. 65
- Some professors give final grades based on numerous small quizzes; homework, midterm and final exams. Others give final grades based on one or two examinations. Which do you think is a better representation of a student ability. 71
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- Your friend has just begun looking at educational programs and is having a hard time narrowing down her choices. What advice would you give? 71
- If you had a small amount of money would you spend it right away or save it Use details and examples to support your explanation 45
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 485.0 444.711560045 109% => OK
No of words: 112.0 116.580246914 96% => 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: 4.33035714286 3.81502700369 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.2531531234 3.28032121604 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.15219320386 1.8723322822 115% => OK
Unique words: 75.0 76.076318743 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.669642857143 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 148.5 141.574747475 105% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0691776253349 0.0738818816272 94% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 112.0 60.3232687746 186% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 45.24 22.9064221017 197% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 18.0 31.1548821549 58% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.22222222222 4.0588447711 153% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.26577582714 3.18357895611 165% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.42333333333 1.46810986539 165% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.75718841082 1.01537252472 173% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 16.0 28.6644219978 56% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.12 5.28593714927 40% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1325 0.187982170178 70% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.131790553531 0.154715141812 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.97 35.408047138 110% => OK
Average word duration: 0.347946428571 0.306236595465 114% => OK
STD word duration: 0.208224374143 0.198589292138 105% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 6.3164983165 142% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.45 5.14435465769 145% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.78 2.80480359147 99% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.24 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00533333333 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.353669319187 0.637764685501 55% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.47568523431 2.58495923209 96% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.65782493369 1.68816559523 98% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.92455735181 2.15290372801 89% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.439382535714 0.343871460585 128% => OK
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.