The man disagrees with the decision announced in the student newspaper. Explain why the university made the decision and why the man disagrees with.
TPO 42 - Question 3
The administration has announced that starting next fall, the university will stop offering evening classes in many departments. According to a university administrator, the decision was prompted by a steady decline in enrollments in evening classes. "Evening classes are just too small," the administrator said. When asked to explain the decline in enrollments, the administrator pointed to the fact that most evening classes are taught by teaching assistants, who are usually graduate students. "Surveys show that students prefer to take classes taught by experienced faculty members, the spokesperson said, “Probably because they simply know more than graduate teaching assistants do.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-19 | Elena Cristina | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-06-05 | Elena Cristina | 51.00 | Check this speaking |
- Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which of the two solutions from the conversation you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation. 60
- Computers have improved our lives while others think computers have caused problems. 90
- Using the points and examples from the talk, explain how substitute goods and complement goods influence demand for a particular product. 90
- Explain how the example of the television advertisement for pots and pans from the lecture illustrates the technique of refute-and-persuade. 76
- Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation. 80
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 530.0 593.389002037 89% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 124.0 154.784114053 80% => 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: 4.27419354839 3.82920900774 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33699396548 3.52088357496 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.12260760842 1.81998168104 117% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 93.7942973523 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.677419354839 0.608046397892 111% => OK
Syllable count: 154.8 185.724439919 83% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0160565112307 0.0833886788687 19% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 17.7142857143 71.3690273242 25% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 9.63200447488 24.1299301424 40% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.99 26.8388033085 30% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.97815463321 8.89323425527 45% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 40.266802444 84% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.64705882353 4.20756893501 87% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.01293395674 3.23972648638 62% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.48382352941 1.51236819293 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.694330039788 1.0352206224 67% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 37.9022403259 58% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.75 7.22384928717 80% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.261363636364 0.193825474362 135% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.20965979921 0.16431695912 128% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.31 46.6644602851 86% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.325080645161 0.304040633073 107% => OK
STD word duration: 0.184746975914 0.193491353168 95% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 8.88594704684 101% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.85 6.97134419552 98% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 8.21 3.21433808554 255% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.93 59.1375356415 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.932166666667 0.985625594026 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.393348828893 0.643888735843 61% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.21705703558 2.61565628039 85% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.50187734668 1.58604529434 95% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.08385016125 2.01333574461 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.293364935484 0.322651457988 91% => OK
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Rates: 51.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.