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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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- TPO 06 - Question 6 66
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 505.0 593.389002037 85% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 133.0 154.784114053 86% => 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: 3.7969924812 3.82920900774 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.39596269041 3.52088357496 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.09818897382 1.81998168104 115% => OK
Unique words: 86.0 93.7942973523 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.646616541353 0.608046397892 106% => OK
Syllable count: 162.9 185.724439919 88% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0682322452309 0.0833886788687 82% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 9.0 3.90020366599 231% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 14.8888888889 71.3690273242 21% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 10.5561403347 24.1299301424 44% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.21777777778 26.8388033085 23% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.04408972803 8.89323425527 45% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 37.0 40.266802444 92% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.59459459459 4.20756893501 85% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.67581217233 3.23972648638 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.3772972973 1.51236819293 91% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.831331230207 1.0352206224 80% => 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: 5.22 7.22384928717 72% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.168387096774 0.193825474362 87% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.106349902534 0.16431695912 65% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.39 46.6644602851 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.333759398496 0.304040633073 110% => OK
STD word duration: 0.18386249154 0.193491353168 95% => 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: 10.84 6.97134419552 155% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.6 3.21433808554 143% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.96 59.1375356415 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.932666666667 0.985625594026 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.553967119371 0.643888735843 86% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.37669764117 2.61565628039 91% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.53681200858 1.58604529434 97% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.93737328227 2.01333574461 96% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.448133796992 0.322651457988 139% => OK
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Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.