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University Makes Changes to Orientation Program
Madison University is making a change to the orientation program for first-year students. In the past, as part of orientation, new, incoming students could go on a two-day hiking and camping trip together with other incoming students on the weekend before classes begin. In order to encourage more students to take advantage of the opportunity to get to know one another in an informal setting, the university will now offer a choice of activities: students will be able to either go hiking or participate in organized group games on campus. Additionally, these activities will last one day only, not two, a change many students had requested.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 660.0 593.389002037 111% => OK
No of words: 159.0 154.784114053 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.15094339623 3.82920900774 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.52088357496 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.17819000287 1.81998168104 120% => OK
Unique words: 103.0 93.7942973523 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.647798742138 0.608046397892 107% => OK
Syllable count: 201.6 185.724439919 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.192973237796 0.0833886788687 231% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 159.0 71.3690273242 223% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 56.7 26.8388033085 211% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 40.266802444 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.88888888889 4.20756893501 140% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.48316466707 3.23972648638 138% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.06074074074 1.51236819293 136% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.22715245793 1.0352206224 119% => 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: 6.9 7.22384928717 96% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.255555555556 0.193825474362 132% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.191317717778 0.16431695912 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.79 46.6644602851 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.29427672956 0.304040633073 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.173616577185 0.193491353168 90% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 8.88594704684 90% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.85 6.97134419552 84% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.13 3.21433808554 35% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.7 59.1375356415 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.945 0.985625594026 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.47619047619 0.643888735843 74% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.80423280423 2.61565628039 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.81657848325 1.58604529434 115% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.20132506946 2.01333574461 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.515695226415 0.322651457988 160% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.