TPO 02 - Question 2 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.

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TPO 02 - Question 2 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.

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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: 551.0 444.711560045 124% => OK
No of words: 152.0 116.580246914 130% => OK
Chars per words: 3.625 3.81502700369 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51124308557 3.28032121604 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.61739109289 1.8723322822 86% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 76.076318743 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578947368421 0.655143326166 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 176.4 141.574747475 125% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.109618221335 0.0738818816272 148% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 76.0 60.3232687746 126% => OK
STD paragraph length: 62.0 17.3634065801 357% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 23.06 22.9064221017 101% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 18.84 6.49597621602 290% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 22.0 31.1548821549 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.90909090909 4.0588447711 170% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.57065854531 3.18357895611 206% => The length of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.01318181818 1.46810986539 137% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.66796660737 1.01537252472 164% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 21.0 28.6644219978 73% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.39 5.28593714927 121% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.304285714286 0.187982170178 162% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.29449830509 0.154715141812 190% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.54 35.408047138 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.240394736842 0.306236595465 78% => Maybe the speed rate is very high.
STD word duration: 0.127871654296 0.198589292138 64% => 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: 1.93 5.14435465769 38% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.41 2.80480359147 50% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.12 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02488888889 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.455333911535 0.637764685501 71% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.29575021683 2.58495923209 127% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.908065915 1.68816559523 113% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.4083196497 2.15290372801 112% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.385605769737 0.343871460585 112% => OK

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

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.