TPO 09 - Question 3
Required Work Experience
The business studies department at State University will now require all students enrolled in its program to complete one semester of work experience in a local corporation or small business. It is felt that students will benefit from this work experience by developing leadership and organizational skills that would not normally be learned in a classroom or campus setting. Furthermore, the relationships that students establish with the company that they work for may help them to secure permanent employment with that company once they have completed the program and graduated.
1. Did you read this announcement?
2. Yeah and I disagree.
3. I don't think it will actually help students.
4. Really?
5. Why not?
6. Well, they talked about leadership and organizational skills, but that's not really the kind of work you do.
7. Like my elder brothers have the kind of jobs they are talking about and typically you are just there to do basic tasks like typing and filing stuff, nothing very meaningful.
8. Oh, so you wouldn't actually learn anything new.
9. Exactly.
10. Ah, I guess I see what you mean.
11. But what about the other point they make?
12. About this helping us after we graduate?
13. I don't agree.
14. How come?
15. Well, the problem is that there are lots of other universities in our area that have the same requirement, so there are lots of other students at these positions.
16. Yeah, I guess I hadn't thought of that.
17. So even if you take a position like this in a company while you are still a student, once you graduate, the competition for permanent jobs will be impossible.
18. I mean there just won't be enough jobs available for the business graduates in the city who will be looking for full time work.
19. Hmm, I see what you are saying.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 746.0 593.389002037 126% => OK
No of words: 170.0 154.784114053 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.38823529412 3.82920900774 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.61087313685 3.52088357496 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66830687735 1.81998168104 147% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 93.7942973523 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.664705882353 0.608046397892 109% => OK
Syllable count: 240.3 185.724439919 129% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.20224032587 116% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.102906951221 0.0833886788687 123% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 56.6666666667 71.3690273242 79% => OK
STD paragraph length: 19.1543438647 24.1299301424 79% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 18.9 26.8388033085 70% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 5.26809896136 8.89323425527 59% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 30.0 40.266802444 75% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.66666666667 4.20756893501 135% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.01109572173 3.23972648638 124% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.839 1.51236819293 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.30212992183 1.0352206224 126% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 37.9022403259 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.59 7.22384928717 105% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.261724137931 0.193825474362 135% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.226320934249 0.16431695912 138% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.53 46.6644602851 98% => OK
Average word duration: 0.267823529412 0.304040633073 88% => OK
STD word duration: 0.16958590927 0.193491353168 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 8.88594704684 45% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.08 6.97134419552 44% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.53 3.21433808554 48% => 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: 0.511463844797 0.643888735843 79% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.99823633157 2.61565628039 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.99294532628 1.58604529434 126% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.48188007907 2.01333574461 123% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.322788876471 0.322651457988 100% => 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.