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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-10 | Toefl2016 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-28 | daryash72 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-05-14 | ash.shouvik | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-04-05 | dadfarfardad361 | 35.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-18 | savikx | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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- State whether you agree or disagree with the following statement. Then explain your reasons, using specific details in your explanation. Learning through online courses is more effective than learning in the traditional classroom setting. 61
- TPO 02 - Question 2Some 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 70
- More and more people are buying items on the Internet and from magazines or catalogs. Other people prefer shopping in a store. Which do you prefer and why? 60
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Children should receive money for doing household tasks such as cleaning. Use specific examples and details to support your opinion. 70
- Do you prefer printed material or electronic books. 61
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 400.0 444.711560045 90% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 102.0 116.580246914 87% => 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: 3.92156862745 3.81502700369 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.17797182781 3.28032121604 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.85073527789 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 70.0 76.076318743 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.686274509804 0.655143326166 105% => OK
Syllable count: 126.0 141.574747475 89% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0929469458344 0.0738818816272 126% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 10.0 3.20202020202 312% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 10.3 60.3232687746 17% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 6.05061980296 17.3634065801 35% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 4.399 22.9064221017 19% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.172737674 6.49597621602 33% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 37.0 31.1548821549 119% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.75675675676 4.0588447711 68% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.9229117196 3.18357895611 60% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.05864864865 1.46810986539 72% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.646329186323 1.01537252472 64% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 28.6644219978 112% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.05 5.28593714927 114% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1890625 0.187982170178 101% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.157288734796 0.154715141812 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 31.74 35.408047138 90% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.311176470588 0.306236595465 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.166134212916 0.198589292138 84% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.73 5.14435465769 92% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.74 2.80480359147 169% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.99 45.0716498316 98% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.977555555556 1.00159221848 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.727438054103 0.637764685501 114% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.31870879745 2.58495923209 90% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.59127074335 1.68816559523 94% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.20541902962 2.15290372801 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.310040019608 0.343871460585 90% => 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.