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TPO 06 - Question 3
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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2020-10-11 | ashkwreya | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-08-15 | chandr | 63.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-01 | Lee Shyu | 35.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-28 | yoamdai | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-09-29 | ali rouhani | 30.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 537.0 593.389002037 90% => OK
No of words: 128.0 154.784114053 83% => 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: 4.1953125 3.82920900774 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.36358566101 3.52088357496 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.86689328226 1.81998168104 103% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 93.7942973523 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.65625 0.608046397892 108% => OK
Syllable count: 155.7 185.724439919 84% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.154726852194 0.0833886788687 186% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 18.4285714286 71.3690273242 26% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 13.7929292741 24.1299301424 57% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.63571428571 26.8388033085 32% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 6.65358519284 8.89323425527 75% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 39.0 40.266802444 97% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.28205128205 4.20756893501 78% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.65975435485 3.23972648638 82% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.44076923077 1.51236819293 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.904102854982 1.0352206224 87% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 37.9022403259 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.24 7.22384928717 86% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.189090909091 0.193825474362 98% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.123885666654 0.16431695912 75% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.95 46.6644602851 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.374609375 0.304040633073 123% => OK
STD word duration: 0.197922421449 0.193491353168 102% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 8.88594704684 101% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.2 6.97134419552 103% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.55 3.21433808554 142% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.45 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.0075 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.545905707196 0.643888735843 85% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.11745244003 2.61565628039 81% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.38957816377 1.58604529434 88% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.75182481752 2.01333574461 87% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.501306921875 0.322651457988 155% => 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.