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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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| 2017-08-25 | Maryabb | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-04 | Taniazehra | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-09 | donya goodarz | 76.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-16 | paras001 | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-09-29 | Heer | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Lee Shyu
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- TPO 06 - Question 5 66
- TPO 5The speakers discuss two possible solutions to the woman’s problem. Describe the problem and the two solutions. Then explain what you think the woman should do and why. 55
- TPO 06 - Question 5 60
- State whether you agree or disagree with the following statement. Then explain your reasons, using specific details in your explanation. Learning through online courses is more effective than learning in the traditional classroom setting. 50
- Talk about a place you enjoyed going to or visiting when you were a child. Describe the place. Explain why you enjoyed it. 60
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 540.0 593.389002037 91% => OK
No of words: 123.0 154.784114053 79% => 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: 4.39024390244 3.82920900774 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33024571262 3.52088357496 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.22562367743 1.81998168104 122% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 93.7942973523 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.707317073171 0.608046397892 116% => OK
Syllable count: 159.3 185.724439919 86% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0857890602459 0.0833886788687 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 17.5714285714 71.3690273242 25% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 17.0617127164 24.1299301424 71% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.08714285714 26.8388033085 30% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 8.19264428669 8.89323425527 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 40.266802444 82% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.72727272727 4.20756893501 89% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.10691045284 3.23972648638 96% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.68242424242 1.51236819293 111% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.19303796151 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: 32.0 37.9022403259 84% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.72 7.22384928717 79% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.17875 0.193825474362 92% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.148592353437 0.16431695912 90% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.6 46.6644602851 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.386991869919 0.304040633073 127% => OK
STD word duration: 0.224267316393 0.193491353168 116% => 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: 12.23 6.97134419552 175% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.69 3.21433808554 53% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.61 59.1375356415 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9435 0.985625594026 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.565271153506 0.643888735843 88% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.17276099629 2.61565628039 83% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.5368309486 1.58604529434 97% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.82773109244 2.01333574461 91% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.492204398374 0.322651457988 153% => OK
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Rates: 56.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 17.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.