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 t

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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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Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 491.0 444.711560045 110% => OK
No of words: 131.0 116.580246914 112% => OK
Chars per words: 3.74809160305 3.81502700369 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38312328216 3.28032121604 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.76628091379 1.8723322822 94% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 76.076318743 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.641221374046 0.655143326166 98% => OK
Syllable count: 160.2 141.574747475 113% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0460096883656 0.0738818816272 62% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 65.5 60.3232687746 109% => OK
STD paragraph length: 64.5 17.3634065801 371% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 22.59 22.9064221017 99% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 21.63 6.49597621602 333% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 31.1548821549 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.03846153846 4.0588447711 124% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.42480509531 3.18357895611 108% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.68461538462 1.46810986539 115% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.868195435147 1.01537252472 86% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 28.6644219978 105% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.21 5.28593714927 61% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.107 0.187982170178 57% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.126389609278 0.154715141812 82% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.86 35.408047138 113% => OK
Average word duration: 0.30427480916 0.306236595465 99% => OK
STD word duration: 0.166481461886 0.198589292138 84% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.69 5.14435465769 111% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.48 2.80480359147 17% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.18 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.004 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.66401062417 0.637764685501 104% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.89951305888 2.58495923209 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.85922974768 1.68816559523 110% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.10737581535 2.15290372801 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.380009229008 0.343871460585 111% => OK

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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.

Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.