Good morning, Paul.
Male instructor Morning. Hey, I just heard something about a problem with registration for one of the biology classes? Do you know anything about that?
Female instructor Yeah. It looks like the Developmental Biology class is already full. Some of the students are complaining—it’s a required course for them and they’re pretty upset that they can’t get it in this semester . . . and it’s not offered next semester.
Male instructor I can see that. They have to take that class before they can take some of the upperlevel courses. So how many students are we talking about?
Female instructor Well, so far, it looks like there are about 10 students who couldn’t get in but need to take the course this semester.
Male instructor Well, we should open a new section. I’m sure we can hire another teaching assistant to teach the class. Or maybe one of the TAs would be willing to teach two classes— they always want the extra money.
Female instructor A new section’s a great idea but are all 10 students really gonna be available at the same time?
Male instructor Maybe not, but if they really need the course, they’ll have to revise their schedules . . . it is a requirement.
Female instructor Hmm. Another option is to get some of the students who don’t need the class this semester . . . get them to drop the class. We should probably focus on the first-year students since they don’t really need the class yet.
Male instructor We could send out a letter explaining the situation . . . and let them know that they’ll get top priority if they want to register for the class next year.
Female instructor We might have to deal with some angry students.
Male instructor Well, what can we do?
Narrator Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which of the two solutions from the conversation you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation
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| 2019-10-24 | kap | 61.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-24 | kap | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-24 | kap | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 445.0 599.738853503 74% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 133.0 158.596602972 84% => 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: 3.34586466165 3.77925476217 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.39596269041 3.54123138178 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.47176490022 1.79916674678 82% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 95.8789808917 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.609022556391 0.607024082132 100% => OK
Syllable count: 147.6 189.005732484 78% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19129511677 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0834277474508 0.0831539838537 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 4.29936305732 93% => OK
Average paragraph length: 33.25 70.8089261375 47% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 20.8731286586 23.6022091992 88% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.125 25.9380837976 43% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 6.72562450632 8.54438981162 79% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 40.7070063694 66% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.92592592593 4.24305496596 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.71110371848 3.29867071766 113% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.57185185185 1.4825078846 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.03924843583 1.02222390891 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 38.0 61% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.63 7.14643312102 65% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.201304347826 0.189447223375 106% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.213425566861 0.156783300276 136% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.68 46.7170700637 76% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.268270676692 0.297490414073 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.137417159068 0.186336302485 74% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 7.29723991507 55% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.84 5.7916985138 49% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.56 3.38276008493 76% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.5 59.3491295117 75% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.741666666667 0.989152158528 75% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.516853932584 0.642608181899 80% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.98876404494 2.6701766005 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.8202247191 1.61481078811 113% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.2701793722 2.05366198651 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.257447218045 0.327712499341 79% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.