TPO 17 - Question 3 New Library Workspaces Say good-bye to the big, multiperson study tables in Turner Library. This summer, the tables will be exchanged for new personal study cubicles—small, one-person desks enclosed by walls. These new units will all

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Average: 6.8 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 537.0 593.389002037 90% => OK
No of words: 122.0 154.784114053 79% => 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: 4.40163934426 3.82920900774 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.32345618554 3.52088357496 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47829871599 1.81998168104 136% => OK
Unique words: 85.0 93.7942973523 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.696721311475 0.608046397892 115% => OK
Syllable count: 173.7 185.724439919 94% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.20224032587 116% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.126363247305 0.0833886788687 152% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 122.0 71.3690273242 171% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 45.04 26.8388033085 168% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 21.0 40.266802444 52% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.80952380952 4.20756893501 138% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.34691112206 3.23972648638 103% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.11380952381 1.51236819293 140% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.04962794402 1.0352206224 101% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 17.0 37.9022403259 45% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.37 7.22384928717 60% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.257058823529 0.193825474362 133% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.200551143716 0.16431695912 122% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.58 46.6644602851 81% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.308032786885 0.304040633073 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.191279725406 0.193491353168 99% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.59 6.97134419552 66% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.64 3.21433808554 51% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.04 59.1375356415 76% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.750666666667 0.985625594026 76% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.377442273535 0.643888735843 59% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.70870337478 2.61565628039 104% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.88721136767 1.58604529434 119% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.261841405 2.01333574461 112% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.537348377049 0.322651457988 167% => OK

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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.

21 in 30

the first reason is not developed well. better:

First of all, a lot of students don’t work in isolation. If the round tables are gone, they won’t be able to work on group projects.

look, 'group projects', 'isolation' are the key words:

4. But with this change, we won't have anywhere in the library to get together to work on group projects.
5. True, group project work is common these days.
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8. Yeah, that's what we could really use.
9.There is just not as much need to work in isolation.