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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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| 2018-09-29 | Heer | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-12 | yuantuantuan | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-12-06 | lamiskhoury | 96.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-30 | mgrajapt | 68.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-08 | Av9ash | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 468.0 593.389002037 79% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 115.0 154.784114053 74% => 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: 4.06956521739 3.82920900774 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.27472217062 3.52088357496 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.96810100099 1.81998168104 108% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 93.7942973523 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.704347826087 0.608046397892 116% => OK
Syllable count: 151.2 185.724439919 81% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0160978696482 0.0833886788687 19% => 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: 9.0 3.90020366599 231% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 13.6666666667 71.3690273242 19% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 13.7840487521 24.1299301424 57% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.32333333333 26.8388033085 24% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.94143454432 8.89323425527 67% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 37.0 40.266802444 92% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.10810810811 4.20756893501 74% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.50285824589 3.23972648638 46% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.3372972973 1.51236819293 88% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.580701573116 1.0352206224 56% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 37.9022403259 95% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.8 7.22384928717 94% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.188888888889 0.193825474362 97% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.13873992011 0.16431695912 84% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.93 46.6644602851 92% => OK
Average word duration: 0.373304347826 0.304040633073 123% => OK
STD word duration: 0.200003137972 0.193491353168 103% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 15.0 8.88594704684 169% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 11.05 6.97134419552 159% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.04 3.21433808554 95% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.91 59.1375356415 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9485 0.985625594026 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.632577754349 0.643888735843 98% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.02073449306 2.61565628039 77% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.42329994729 1.58604529434 90% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.88679245283 2.01333574461 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.443642443478 0.322651457988 137% => 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.