Decline of Ability in College Students

Differences between attributes of those who discuss decline of ability in pupils and students sometimes cause confusion in the arguments. In this paper, we try to reveal what attribute of faculty members effects on their views for decline of ability in college students. As the result, we find that the difference of faculty and the difference of foundation, that is, national university, public college and private college, have relatively strong effects on the views. We also find that decline of ability can be explained in terms of the following two points of views. One is the basic ability of reasoning thinking, numerical thinking and competence in foreign languages. The other is the learning motivation. Roughly speaking, elder faculty members or the members in private colleges are afraid of decline of the basic ability. And, as the difference among faculties, decline of the basic ability is suspected in the faculty of sociology, gymnastics and domestic science; decline of the learning ability is in science; both are in information science, economics, technology and pharmacy.