The man disagrees with the decision announced in the student newspaper. Explain why the university made the decision and why the man disagrees with.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-05 | Elena Cristina | 51.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-19 | Elena Cristina | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
- Should the university education be free? 83
- Should people always tell the truth? 80
- The man disagrees with the decision announced in the student newspaper. Explain why the university made the decision and why the man disagrees with. 60
- TPO 05 - Question 6 65
- The speakers discuss two possible solutions to the woman’s problem. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which of the solutions you recommend and explain why 75
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 543.0 593.389002037 92% => OK
No of words: 142.0 154.784114053 92% => 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: 3.82394366197 3.82920900774 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.45201032557 3.52088357496 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.95116179105 1.81998168104 107% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 93.7942973523 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.612676056338 0.608046397892 101% => OK
Syllable count: 170.1 185.724439919 92% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0626278422311 0.0833886788687 75% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 20.4285714286 71.3690273242 29% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 15.0129196062 24.1299301424 62% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.22571428571 26.8388033085 31% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.77913453022 8.89323425527 65% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 40.266802444 79% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.4375 4.20756893501 105% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.01510818659 3.23972648638 124% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.6884375 1.51236819293 112% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.18547224075 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: 27.0 37.9022403259 71% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.14 7.22384928717 99% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.264444444444 0.193825474362 136% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.272333310667 0.16431695912 166% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.13 46.6644602851 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.317816901408 0.304040633073 105% => OK
STD word duration: 0.201410925327 0.193491353168 104% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 12.0 8.88594704684 135% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 9.69 6.97134419552 139% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.51 3.21433808554 109% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.58 59.1375356415 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.959666666667 0.985625594026 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.46891281695 0.643888735843 73% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.46613407433 2.61565628039 94% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.51094129906 1.58604529434 95% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.92776423665 2.01333574461 96% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.297214640845 0.322651457988 92% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.