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TPO 31 - Question 2 Some university students choose to take difficult classes even if they know they might not get a good grade in the class. Other students prefer to take easier classes in which they know they will get a good grade. Which do you prefer?
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- TPO 31 - Question 2 Some university students choose to take difficult classes even if they know they might not get a good grade in the class. Other students prefer to take easier classes in which they know they will get a good grade. Which do you prefer? 86
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 474.0 444.711560045 107% => OK
No of words: 120.0 116.580246914 103% => OK
Chars per words: 3.95 3.81502700369 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.30975091965 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.84774637509 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 76.076318743 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.7 0.655143326166 107% => OK
Syllable count: 143.1 141.574747475 101% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0563246867955 0.0738818816272 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 120.0 60.3232687746 199% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 45.54 22.9064221017 199% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 31.1548821549 103% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.75 4.0588447711 92% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.61007662723 3.18357895611 82% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.3725 1.46810986539 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.780508648254 1.01537252472 77% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 28.6644219978 122% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.02 5.28593714927 133% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.200571428571 0.187982170178 107% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.137652624014 0.154715141812 89% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.61 35.408047138 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.305083333333 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.160686007653 0.198589292138 81% => 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: 4.86 5.14435465769 94% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.35 2.80480359147 12% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.54 45.0716498316 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.012 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.768555116381 0.637764685501 121% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.63504611331 2.58495923209 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.84453227931 1.68816559523 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.29445506692 2.15290372801 107% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.284119516667 0.343871460585 83% => OK
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.