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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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- Sculpture Courses to Be DiscontinuedUniversity 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. &quo 83
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 551.0 593.389002037 93% => OK
No of words: 153.0 154.784114053 99% => 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: 3.60130718954 3.82920900774 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51700396316 3.52088357496 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.62231122664 1.81998168104 89% => OK
Unique words: 97.0 93.7942973523 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.633986928105 0.608046397892 104% => OK
Syllable count: 185.4 185.724439919 100% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0466430062674 0.0833886788687 56% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.90020366599 154% => OK
Average paragraph length: 25.5 71.3690273242 36% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 7.69740215917 24.1299301424 32% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.91833333333 26.8388033085 37% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.65668600997 8.89323425527 30% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 52.0 40.266802444 129% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.94230769231 4.20756893501 70% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.05139222461 3.23972648638 63% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.09538461538 1.51236819293 72% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.753464974273 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: 50.0 37.9022403259 132% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.73 7.22384928717 135% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1946 0.193825474362 100% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.182353612522 0.16431695912 111% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.58 46.6644602851 98% => OK
Average word duration: 0.297908496732 0.304040633073 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.149236197377 0.193491353168 77% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 8.88594704684 45% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.15 6.97134419552 45% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.11 3.21433808554 66% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.51 59.1375356415 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.991833333333 0.985625594026 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.840194925223 0.643888735843 130% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.57099647118 2.61565628039 98% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.62997815493 1.58604529434 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.12812637122 2.01333574461 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.290573281046 0.322651457988 90% => 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.