Some college students choose to take courses in a variety of subject areas. Others choose to focus on a single subject. Which approach do you think is better?

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Some college students choose to take courses in a variety of subject areas. Others choose to focus on a single subject. Which approach do you think is better?

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 520.0 444.711560045 117% => OK
No of words: 137.0 116.580246914 118% => OK
Chars per words: 3.79562043796 3.81502700369 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.42121322205 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.94875474419 1.8723322822 104% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 76.076318743 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.63503649635 0.655143326166 97% => OK
Syllable count: 167.4 141.574747475 118% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.204975100777 0.0738818816272 277% => Good job. The more, the better.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 137.0 60.3232687746 227% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 47.32 22.9064221017 207% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 31.1548821549 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.15151515152 4.0588447711 102% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.10543230896 3.18357895611 98% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.3696969697 1.46810986539 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.92404737137 1.01537252472 91% => 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: 4.72 5.28593714927 89% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.134857142857 0.187982170178 72% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.121781336327 0.154715141812 79% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.38 35.408047138 111% => OK
Average word duration: 0.287445255474 0.306236595465 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.152784515959 0.198589292138 77% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.03 5.14435465769 78% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.44 2.80480359147 51% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.32 45.0716498316 105% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.05155555556 1.00159221848 105% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.739644970414 0.637764685501 116% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.89518174134 2.58495923209 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.83854606932 1.68816559523 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.2092432707 2.15290372801 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.326487766423 0.343871460585 95% => OK

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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.

Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.