Some people believe that primary schools should no longer teach children how to write by hand, and instead should spend time teaching them how to type on a computer. Other people believe that it is still important for schools to teach children to have goo

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Some people believe that primary schools should no longer teach children how to write by hand, and instead should spend time teaching them how to type on a computer. Other people believe that it is still important for schools to teach children to have good handwriting. Which point of view do you agree with? Explain why.

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Average: 5 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 772.0 444.711560045 174% => OK
No of words: 203.0 116.580246914 174% => Need less no. of words.
Chars per words: 3.80295566502 3.81502700369 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.77462671648 3.28032121604 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.86769031858 1.8723322822 100% => OK
Unique words: 125.0 76.076318743 164% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615763546798 0.655143326166 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 234.0 141.574747475 165% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.143048259436 0.0738818816272 194% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 9.0 3.20202020202 281% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 22.5555555556 60.3232687746 37% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 21.4947596255 17.3634065801 124% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.57555555556 22.9064221017 37% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 7.58266313685 6.49597621602 117% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 62.0 31.1548821549 199% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.27419354839 4.0588447711 81% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.6406826759 3.18357895611 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.15241935484 1.46810986539 78% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.789721644476 1.01537252472 78% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 65.0 28.6644219978 227% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 11.77 5.28593714927 223% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.181076923077 0.187982170178 96% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.149472128371 0.154715141812 97% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 59.32 35.408047138 168% => Less content wanted.
Average word duration: 0.292216748768 0.306236595465 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.172539742877 0.198589292138 87% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 11.0 6.3164983165 174% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.63 5.14435465769 168% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.31 2.80480359147 118% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 77.18 45.0716498316 171% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.71511111111 1.00159221848 171% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.842187095102 0.637764685501 132% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.63021508163 2.58495923209 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.6195905675 1.68816559523 96% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.10721510452 2.15290372801 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.302430325123 0.343871460585 88% => OK

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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.

Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.