Academic Lobification: Low-performance Control Strategy for Long-planed Academic Purpose

TL;DR

This paper explores the concept of academic lobification, a strategic manipulation of academic performance for long-term goals, highlighting its importance, underlying questions, and constraints in this emerging field.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of academic lobification, discusses fundamental research questions, and examines technical and legal constraints in studying this phenomenon.

Findings

Defines academic lobification and its significance.

Identifies key research questions and scope.

Analyzes constraints on studying academic lobification.

Abstract

Academic lobification refers to a collection of academic performance control strategies, methods, and means that a student deliberately hides academic behaviors, or deliberately lowers academic performance, or deliberately delays academic returns for a certain long-term purpose, but does not produce academic risks. Understanding academic lobification is essential to our ability to compensate for inherent deviations in the evaluation of students' academic performance, discover gifted student, reap benefits and minimize harms. It outlines a set of questions that are fundamental to this emerging interdisciplinary research field, including research object, research question, research scope, research method, and explores the technical, legal and other constraints on the study of academic lobification.