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You may request an excused absence once per semester without explanation. Just email me and specify the date that you will be absent from class. If you plan to be absent on the day of a test or an exam, however, you must provide an explanation and make arrangements for a makeup test or exam. Please see me in my office for an excused absence from a test or exam. If you must be absent for more than one session, your gThe student expresses his opinion of the professor’s policy for excused absences. Report his opinion and explain the reasons that he gives for having that opinion.rade may be affected. Your grade may be lowered one letter for each additional absence after the excused absence.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-08 | bishoy | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-01 | mehrnazsadr | 85.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 579.0 593.389002037 98% => OK
No of words: 138.0 154.784114053 89% => 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: 4.19565217391 3.82920900774 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.42743929552 3.52088357496 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.166472775 1.81998168104 119% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 93.7942973523 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.659420289855 0.608046397892 108% => OK
Syllable count: 190.8 185.724439919 103% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.20224032587 116% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0760649126394 0.0833886788687 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 9.0 3.90020366599 231% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 15.3333333333 71.3690273242 21% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 6.05530070819 24.1299301424 25% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.90444444444 26.8388033085 22% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.33297192968 8.89323425527 26% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 40.266802444 65% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.30769230769 4.20756893501 126% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.99703995981 3.23972648638 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.88461538462 1.51236819293 125% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.982928242037 1.0352206224 95% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 21.0 37.9022403259 55% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.07 7.22384928717 70% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.241428571429 0.193825474362 125% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.1903201742 0.16431695912 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.69 46.6644602851 91% => OK
Average word duration: 0.309347826087 0.304040633073 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.183268261924 0.193491353168 95% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 8.88594704684 90% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.96 6.97134419552 85% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.7 3.21433808554 115% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 53.14 59.1375356415 90% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.885666666667 0.985625594026 90% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.395182536696 0.643888735843 61% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.59691381257 2.61565628039 99% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.71245765901 1.58604529434 108% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.13164675568 2.01333574461 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.463226173913 0.322651457988 144% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.