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TPO 02 - Question 2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-28 | daryash72 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-21 | prayashpathak | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-09 | jeffhjz | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-08 | Adamma | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-19 | MHP | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 379.0 444.711560045 85% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 103.0 116.580246914 88% => 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: 3.67961165049 3.81502700369 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.18573250055 3.28032121604 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.74162959196 1.8723322822 93% => OK
Unique words: 64.0 76.076318743 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.621359223301 0.655143326166 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 122.4 141.574747475 86% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.077399147344 0.0738818816272 105% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 51.5 60.3232687746 85% => OK
STD paragraph length: 13.5 17.3634065801 78% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 21.825 22.9064221017 95% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 6.485 6.49597621602 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 31.1548821549 103% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.21875 4.0588447711 79% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.20872224374 3.18357895611 101% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.3196875 1.46810986539 90% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.20159135206 1.01537252472 118% => 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: 4.76 5.28593714927 90% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.153548387097 0.187982170178 82% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.114906648986 0.154715141812 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.25 35.408047138 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.351941747573 0.306236595465 115% => OK
STD word duration: 0.191509376446 0.198589292138 96% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 11.0 6.3164983165 174% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.19 5.14435465769 159% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.27 2.80480359147 45% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.65 45.0716498316 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.97 1.00159221848 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.710194730813 0.637764685501 111% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.3596792669 2.58495923209 91% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.46620847652 1.68816559523 87% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.76551724138 2.15290372801 82% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.310710223301 0.343871460585 90% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.