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: 485.0 444.711560045 109% => OK
No of words: 124.0 116.580246914 106% => OK
Chars per words: 3.91129032258 3.81502700369 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33699396548 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.87948215575 1.8723322822 100% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 76.076318743 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.709677419355 0.655143326166 108% => OK
Syllable count: 149.4 141.574747475 106% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0496178359667 0.0738818816272 67% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 20.6666666667 60.3232687746 34% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 21.5458168149 17.3634065801 124% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.94666666667 22.9064221017 35% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 8.77074429884 6.49597621602 135% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 31.1548821549 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.76923076923 4.0588447711 118% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.65214521771 3.18357895611 178% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.73769230769 1.46810986539 118% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.73287069004 1.01537252472 171% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 28.6644219978 80% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.63 5.28593714927 88% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.201304347826 0.187982170178 107% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.132871443192 0.154715141812 86% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.43 35.408047138 111% => OK
Average word duration: 0.317983870968 0.306236595465 104% => OK
STD word duration: 0.181027443289 0.198589292138 91% => 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: 5.55 5.14435465769 108% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.07 2.80480359147 74% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.68 45.0716498316 106% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.05955555556 1.00159221848 106% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.482382550336 0.637764685501 76% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.60067114094 2.58495923209 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.84563758389 1.68816559523 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.23180319554 2.15290372801 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.342779443548 0.343871460585 100% => OK

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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.