Sometimes as a professor or lecturer at university we see students who can't manage to pass the subject that is taught due their weak background in that subject. You see them repeat the subject course over and over without any further development even though you have provided all the necessary resources and material that they need.
Justin Kruger and David Dunning in their paper titled " Unskilled and Unaware of It ..." has proposed that those with limited knowledge in a domain suffer a dual burden: Not only do they reach mistaken conclusions and make regrettable errors, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it.
So what kind of action a professor/Lecturer can do in this case? Do you advise the student to change the course/study field?
In the university where I work there is a consulting service for students. I am not sure if this topic is within their area of expertise.
Anyway, on no occasion can you reject this possibility. It is not pleasant when a student goes through the hustle to change course of study for sure.
In any case, just to answer your question if I was asked, I would advise the student to examine many factors in depth before deciding.
Dear Loay, every education system has its rules and restrections, so it depends whether the rules of your education system would allows you to do so or not. Personally, I would not recommend giving such kind of advice to any student no matter how close he/she to me. Because that advice might affect his/her whole career and you will be the only one to blame.
It depends if that course lies in his major field or not. If yes then i would rather ask him to work hard and give more time and if no then its fine to go with chnage
Thank you Dr. Ali Al-Askery , Dr. Konstantinos Karampelas , and Dr. Muhammad Aamir Shafique Khan for your answers.
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