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Sculpture Courses to Be Discontinued
University administrators announced yesterday that the sculpture program, a division of the art department, will be eliminated. "The main reason is a lack of student interest," reported one administrator. "Although the number of art students has increased, fewer and fewer art majors are taking sculpture classes." Furthermore, the department's only sculpture professor is retiring this year. "Given the art department's limited budget," the administrator explained, "it just doesn't make sense to hire a new full-time professor to teach sculpture for only a handful of students."
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| 2016-12-16 | paras001 | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-10-15 | muzamil | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-01 | Lee Shyu | 63.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-02-23 | mgrajapt | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-01 | Lee Shyu | 55.00 | Check this speaking |
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- In everyday life, when people speak of memory, they are almost always speaking about what psychologists would call explicit memories. An explicit memory is a conscious or intentional recollection, usually of facts, names, events, or other things that a pe 50
- Some people have one career throughout their lives. Other people do different kinds of work at different points in their lives. Which do you think is better? Explain why. 66
- Talk about a photograph or painting you have seen that was memorable. Explain what you liked or disliked about it. 50
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Why or why not? Use details and examples to explain your answer. It is more important to study math or science than it is to study art or literature 66
- Talk about a place you enjoyed going to or visiting when you were a child Describe the place Explain why you enjoyed it 50
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 408.0 593.389002037 69% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 98.0 154.784114053 63% => 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: 4.16326530612 3.82920900774 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.14634628365 3.52088357496 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.31540483325 1.81998168104 127% => OK
Unique words: 75.0 93.7942973523 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.765306122449 0.608046397892 126% => OK
Syllable count: 129.6 185.724439919 70% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0 0.0833886788687 0% => 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: 17.0 3.90020366599 436% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 5.82352941176 71.3690273242 8% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 4.35532526127 24.1299301424 18% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 3.04588235294 26.8388033085 11% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 1.92777548981 8.89323425527 22% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 40.266802444 79% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.0625 4.20756893501 73% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.9515618745 3.23972648638 60% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.391875 1.51236819293 92% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.758289347396 1.0352206224 73% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 19.0 37.9022403259 50% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.03 7.22384928717 42% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.159473684211 0.193825474362 82% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.121415930812 0.16431695912 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.51 46.6644602851 87% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.413367346939 0.304040633073 136% => OK
STD word duration: 0.245705746851 0.193491353168 127% => It may have hesitations.
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 17.0 8.88594704684 191% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 14.53 6.97134419552 208% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.88 3.21433808554 214% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 51.78 59.1375356415 88% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.863 0.985625594026 88% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.366937041329 0.643888735843 57% => OK
Rate of speech: 1.89262263422 2.61565628039 72% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.44843568946 1.58604529434 91% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.85139471735 2.01333574461 92% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.494096989796 0.322651457988 153% => OK
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Rates: 55.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 16.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.