some universities have larger, lecture-based classes, whereas other have smaller, discussion based classes. Which do you think is better and why? Include details and reasons to support your position.

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some universities have larger, lecture-based classes, whereas other have smaller, discussion based classes. Which do you think is better and why? Include details and reasons to support your position.

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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: 435.0 444.711560045 98% => OK
No of words: 115.0 116.580246914 99% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.78260869565 3.81502700369 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.27472217062 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.66175710408 1.8723322822 89% => OK
Unique words: 78.0 76.076318743 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.678260869565 0.655143326166 104% => OK
Syllable count: 128.7 141.574747475 91% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0417401201613 0.0738818816272 56% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 57.5 60.3232687746 95% => OK
STD paragraph length: 14.5 17.3634065801 84% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 23.09 22.9064221017 101% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 2.92 6.49597621602 45% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 44.0 31.1548821549 141% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.61363636364 4.0588447711 64% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.59852075215 3.18357895611 50% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.02659090909 1.46810986539 70% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.582740169691 1.01537252472 57% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 42.0 28.6644219978 147% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 13.04 5.28593714927 247% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.310476190476 0.187982170178 165% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.295231566748 0.154715141812 191% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 30.06 35.408047138 85% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.261391304348 0.306236595465 85% => OK
STD word duration: 0.139557605102 0.198589292138 70% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 6.3164983165 47% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.11 5.14435465769 41% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.47 2.80480359147 52% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.18 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02622222222 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.909484625379 0.637764685501 143% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.49025552187 2.58495923209 96% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.6890428757 1.68816559523 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.59481037924 2.15290372801 121% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.288319686957 0.343871460585 84% => 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.