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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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| 2016-08-19 | Numfon Weidinger | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-29 | hipax | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-11-16 | fahim135 | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-10-02 | ajulyav | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-09 | tnan3158 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 472.0 593.389002037 80% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 123.0 154.784114053 79% => 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: 3.83739837398 3.82920900774 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33024571262 3.52088357496 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.82295205838 1.81998168104 100% => OK
Unique words: 89.0 93.7942973523 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.723577235772 0.608046397892 119% => OK
Syllable count: 150.3 185.724439919 81% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0221512050243 0.0833886788687 27% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 133.0 71.3690273242 186% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 45.64 26.8388033085 170% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 40.266802444 60% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.125 4.20756893501 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.46785836889 3.23972648638 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.7525 1.51236819293 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.972750610383 1.0352206224 94% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 26.0 37.9022403259 69% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.95 7.22384928717 82% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.228846153846 0.193825474362 118% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.153204913636 0.16431695912 93% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.14 46.6644602851 75% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.285691056911 0.304040633073 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.147967703029 0.193491353168 76% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 8.88594704684 56% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.47 6.97134419552 50% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.02 3.21433808554 1% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.64 59.1375356415 77% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.760666666667 0.985625594026 77% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.56967572305 0.643888735843 88% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.69500438212 2.61565628039 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.95004382121 1.58604529434 123% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.53272623791 2.01333574461 126% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.367448471545 0.322651457988 114% => OK
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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.