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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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| 2018-08-30 | mgrajapt | 78.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2019-11-01 | Lee Shyu | 51.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 511.0 593.389002037 86% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 126.0 154.784114053 81% => 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: 4.05555555556 3.82920900774 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.35036895883 3.52088357496 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.02094412777 1.81998168104 111% => OK
Unique words: 75.0 93.7942973523 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.595238095238 0.608046397892 98% => 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: 0.186769267972 0.0833886788687 224% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 3.90020366599 128% => OK
Average paragraph length: 27.0 71.3690273242 38% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 33.2325141992 24.1299301424 138% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 12.072 26.8388033085 45% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 14.8548569835 8.89323425527 167% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 37.0 40.266802444 92% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.40540540541 4.20756893501 81% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.99061106889 3.23972648638 92% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.4272972973 1.51236819293 94% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.1340114129 1.0352206224 110% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 41.0 37.9022403259 108% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.85 7.22384928717 95% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.167073170732 0.193825474362 86% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.120956430423 0.16431695912 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.05 46.6644602851 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.365476190476 0.304040633073 120% => OK
STD word duration: 0.202545731238 0.193491353168 105% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 16.0 8.88594704684 180% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 11.76 6.97134419552 169% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.51 3.21433808554 78% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.36 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.006 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.679257786614 0.643888735843 105% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.08747514911 2.61565628039 80% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.24254473161 1.58604529434 78% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.62866449511 2.01333574461 81% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.57382052381 0.322651457988 178% => 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.