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University Makes Changes to Orientation Program
Madison University is making a change to the orientation program for first-year students. In the past, as part of orientation, new, incoming students could go on a two-day hiking and camping trip together with other incoming students on the weekend before classes begin. In order to encourage more students to take advantage of the opportunity to get to know one another in an informal setting, the university will now offer a choice of activities: students will be able to either go hiking or participate in organized group games on campus. Additionally, these activities will last one day only, not two, a change many students had requested.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 532.0 593.389002037 90% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 153.0 154.784114053 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: 3.47712418301 3.82920900774 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51700396316 3.52088357496 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.71530963809 1.81998168104 94% => OK
Unique words: 78.0 93.7942973523 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.509803921569 0.608046397892 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 172.8 185.724439919 93% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.20224032587 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0939042509135 0.0833886788687 113% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 76.5 71.3690273242 107% => OK
STD paragraph length: 58.5 24.1299301424 242% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 30.05 26.8388033085 112% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 23.49 8.89323425527 264% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 40.0 40.266802444 99% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.825 4.20756893501 91% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.61169973835 3.23972648638 111% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.438 1.51236819293 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.02993009472 1.0352206224 99% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 38.0 37.9022403259 100% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.17 7.22384928717 127% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.241315789474 0.193825474362 125% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.228163965196 0.16431695912 139% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.43 46.6644602851 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.303464052288 0.304040633073 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.193293844045 0.193491353168 100% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 15.0 8.88594704684 169% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 10.93 6.97134419552 157% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.49 3.21433808554 77% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.1 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00166666667 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.63227953411 0.643888735843 98% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.54575707155 2.61565628039 97% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.29783693844 1.58604529434 82% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.67994830928 2.01333574461 83% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.370607830065 0.322651457988 115% => 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.