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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2019-09-15 | bishoy | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-19 | mehdiaskarieng951 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-02 | workingarora | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-06-18 | wls1993 | 61.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-01 | Lee Shyu | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 617.0 593.389002037 104% => OK
No of words: 144.0 154.784114053 93% => 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: 4.28472222222 3.82920900774 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.46410161514 3.52088357496 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.92448836796 1.81998168104 106% => OK
Unique words: 95.0 93.7942973523 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.659722222222 0.608046397892 108% => OK
Syllable count: 184.5 185.724439919 99% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0986125952626 0.0833886788687 118% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.90020366599 103% => OK
Average paragraph length: 37.25 71.3690273242 52% => OK
STD paragraph length: 43.9395892106 24.1299301424 182% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.9 26.8388033085 56% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 17.7767854237 8.89323425527 200% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 40.266802444 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.64516129032 4.20756893501 110% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.75386399618 3.23972648638 85% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.79290322581 1.51236819293 119% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.937681401111 1.0352206224 91% => 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: 4.31 7.22384928717 60% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.139032258065 0.193825474362 72% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.115907494781 0.16431695912 71% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.37 46.6644602851 108% => OK
Average word duration: 0.349791666667 0.304040633073 115% => OK
STD word duration: 0.19081866301 0.193491353168 99% => 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: 7.16 6.97134419552 103% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.89 3.21433808554 59% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.6 59.1375356415 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.993333333333 0.985625594026 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.520134228188 0.643888735843 81% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.41610738255 2.61565628039 92% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.59395973154 1.58604529434 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.88604327973 2.01333574461 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.490762333333 0.322651457988 152% => OK
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.