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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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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 687.0 593.389002037 116% => OK
No of words: 165.0 154.784114053 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.16363636364 3.82920900774 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58402463422 3.52088357496 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.05762708018 1.81998168104 113% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7942973523 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581818181818 0.608046397892 96% => OK
Syllable count: 213.3 185.724439919 115% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.151161867897 0.0833886788687 181% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.90020366599 154% => OK
Average paragraph length: 27.5 71.3690273242 39% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 18.2825052988 24.1299301424 76% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.99 26.8388033085 37% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 6.24592934105 8.89323425527 70% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 40.266802444 60% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.875 4.20756893501 163% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.58599707195 3.23972648638 111% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.38125 1.51236819293 157% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.19081664031 1.0352206224 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 21.0 37.9022403259 55% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.76 7.22384928717 66% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.226666666667 0.193825474362 117% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.149135072472 0.16431695912 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.7 46.6644602851 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.307272727273 0.304040633073 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.178822287393 0.193491353168 92% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 8.88594704684 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.3 6.97134419552 76% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.56 3.21433808554 80% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.94 59.1375356415 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 0.999 0.985625594026 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.35035035035 0.643888735843 54% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.75275275275 2.61565628039 105% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.6016016016 1.58604529434 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.89349112426 2.01333574461 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.364297575758 0.322651457988 113% => 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.