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The administration has announced that starting next fall, the university will stop offering evening classes in many departments. According to a university administrator, the decision was prompted by a steady decline in enrollments in evening classes. "Evening classes are just too small," the administrator said. When asked to explain the decline in enrollments, the administrator pointed to the fact that most evening classes are taught by teaching assistants, who are usually graduate students. "Surveys show that students prefer to take classes taught by experienced faculty members, the spokesperson said, “Probably because they simply know more than graduate teaching assistants do.
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| 2019-11-11 | bishoy | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-11 | mgrajapt | 86.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-08-22 | Numfon Weidinger | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-02-24 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-21 | Mennatallah | 76.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 533.0 593.389002037 90% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 144.0 154.784114053 93% => 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: 3.70138888889 3.82920900774 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.46410161514 3.52088357496 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.62907549238 1.81998168104 90% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7942973523 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.666666666667 0.608046397892 110% => OK
Syllable count: 174.6 185.724439919 94% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0303562791929 0.0833886788687 36% => 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: 12.0 3.90020366599 308% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 12.0 71.3690273242 17% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 8.47545475673 24.1299301424 35% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 4.5775 26.8388033085 17% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.88932265707 8.89323425527 32% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 40.0 40.266802444 99% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.6 4.20756893501 86% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.32163735325 3.23972648638 72% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.2345 1.51236819293 82% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.667847100765 1.0352206224 65% => 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: 4.38 7.22384928717 61% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.132727272727 0.193825474362 68% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.113144389576 0.16431695912 69% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.49 46.6644602851 93% => OK
Average word duration: 0.302013888889 0.304040633073 99% => OK
STD word duration: 0.15755766079 0.193491353168 81% => 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: 6.28 6.97134419552 90% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.17 3.21433808554 161% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 54.93 59.1375356415 93% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9155 0.985625594026 93% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.600764609503 0.643888735843 93% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.62151829601 2.61565628039 100% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.74767886401 1.58604529434 110% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.20740400092 2.01333574461 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.298107284722 0.322651457988 92% => OK
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.