Good morning, Paul.
Male instructor Morning. Hey, I just heard something about a problem with registration for one of the biology classes? Do you know anything about that?
Female instructor Yeah. It looks like the Developmental Biology class is already full. Some of the students are complaining—it’s a required course for them and they’re pretty upset that they can’t get it in this semester . . . and it’s not offered next semester.
Male instructor I can see that. They have to take that class before they can take some of the upperlevel courses. So how many students are we talking about?
Female instructor Well, so far, it looks like there are about 10 students who couldn’t get in but need to take the course this semester.
Male instructor Well, we should open a new section. I’m sure we can hire another teaching assistant to teach the class. Or maybe one of the TAs would be willing to teach two classes— they always want the extra money.
Female instructor A new section’s a great idea but are all 10 students really gonna be available at the same time?
Male instructor Maybe not, but if they really need the course, they’ll have to revise their schedules . . . it is a requirement.
Female instructor Hmm. Another option is to get some of the students who don’t need the class this semester . . . get them to drop the class. We should probably focus on the first-year students since they don’t really need the class yet.
Male instructor We could send out a letter explaining the situation . . . and let them know that they’ll get top priority if they want to register for the class next year.
Female instructor We might have to deal with some angry students.
Male instructor Well, what can we do?
Narrator Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which of the two solutions from the conversation you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 375.0 599.738853503 63% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 108.0 158.596602972 68% => 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: 3.47222222222 3.77925476217 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.22370979547 3.54123138178 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.77669237699 1.79916674678 99% => OK
Unique words: 61.0 95.8789808917 64% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.564814814815 0.607024082132 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 126.0 189.005732484 67% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19129511677 101% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0773718924404 0.0831539838537 93% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 4.29936305732 116% => OK
Average paragraph length: 21.6 70.8089261375 31% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 15.0013332741 23.6022091992 64% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.62 25.9380837976 33% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.89474002819 8.54438981162 69% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 39.0 40.7070063694 96% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.76923076923 4.24305496596 65% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.83221231641 3.29867071766 56% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.02692307692 1.4825078846 69% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.672233757596 1.02222390891 66% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 37.0 38.0 97% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.58 7.14643312102 92% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.177837837838 0.189447223375 94% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.197075032153 0.156783300276 126% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 31.53 46.7170700637 67% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.291944444444 0.297490414073 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.15882355883 0.186336302485 85% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 7.29723991507 69% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.86 5.7916985138 67% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.44 3.38276008493 102% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.1 59.3491295117 73% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.718333333333 0.989152158528 73% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.858468677494 0.642608181899 134% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.50580046404 2.6701766005 94% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.41531322506 1.61481078811 88% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.93466539803 2.05366198651 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.267273268519 0.327712499341 82% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.