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History Seminars Should Be Shorter
Currently, all of the seminar classes in the history department are three hours long. I would like to propose that history seminars be shortened to two hours. I make this proposal for two reasons. First, most students just cannot concentrate for three hours straight. I myself have taken these three-hour seminars and found them tiring and sometimes boring. Also, when a seminar lasts that long, people stop concentrating and stop learning, so the third hour of a three-hour seminar is a waste of everyone‘s time. Two-hour seminars would be much more efficient.
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| 2018-10-17 | Aftab1 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 525.0 593.389002037 88% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 124.0 154.784114053 80% => 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: 4.23387096774 3.82920900774 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33699396548 3.52088357496 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.10264376965 1.81998168104 116% => OK
Unique words: 90.0 93.7942973523 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.725806451613 0.608046397892 119% => OK
Syllable count: 153.0 185.724439919 82% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.09180729338 0.0833886788687 110% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 11.0 3.90020366599 282% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 11.3636363636 71.3690273242 16% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 11.5386522553 24.1299301424 48% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.34181818182 26.8388033085 20% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.19863236942 8.89323425527 58% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 36.0 40.266802444 89% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.44444444444 4.20756893501 82% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.45452467049 3.23972648638 76% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.46833333333 1.51236819293 97% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.914340989153 1.0352206224 88% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 37.9022403259 84% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.43 7.22384928717 103% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2321875 0.193825474362 120% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.132635175741 0.16431695912 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.19 46.6644602851 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.364435483871 0.304040633073 120% => OK
STD word duration: 0.210630016622 0.193491353168 109% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 12.0 8.88594704684 135% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 9.85 6.97134419552 141% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.47 3.21433808554 139% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.76 59.1375356415 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.979333333333 0.985625594026 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.544588155208 0.643888735843 85% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.11027910143 2.61565628039 81% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.53165418652 1.58604529434 97% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.99159105997 2.01333574461 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.569617064516 0.322651457988 177% => OK
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Rates: 51.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.