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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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| 2018-10-17 | Aftab1 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 689.0 593.389002037 116% => OK
No of words: 171.0 154.784114053 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.02923976608 3.82920900774 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.61617157096 3.52088357496 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.81748139009 1.81998168104 100% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 93.7942973523 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.631578947368 0.608046397892 104% => OK
Syllable count: 207.9 185.724439919 112% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.109734521942 0.0833886788687 132% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 3.90020366599 128% => OK
Average paragraph length: 34.2 71.3690273242 48% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 38.2068056765 24.1299301424 158% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.88 26.8388033085 44% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 11.9560160589 8.89323425527 134% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 40.266802444 87% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.88571428571 4.20756893501 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.99836701361 3.23972648638 123% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.65685714286 1.51236819293 110% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.13086255683 1.0352206224 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 31.0 37.9022403259 82% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.25 7.22384928717 87% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.201612903226 0.193825474362 104% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.146553893515 0.16431695912 89% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.17 46.6644602851 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.287543859649 0.304040633073 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.165765430355 0.193491353168 86% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.55 6.97134419552 65% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.89 3.21433808554 59% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.4 59.1375356415 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.99 0.985625594026 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.521885521886 0.643888735843 81% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.87878787879 2.61565628039 110% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.81818181818 1.58604529434 115% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.19646125686 2.01333574461 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.379913766082 0.322651457988 118% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.