Educational research is a process of promoting the development of generalized principles and principles through the explanation, prediction and control of educational phenomena under the guidance of discovering or developing scientific knowledge system. As a form of scientific research, educational research is characterized by creativity, purpose and planning, aiming at solving certain educational problems.
The significance of educational research:
First of all, educational research is the driving force to promote educational reform and development. Change the concept of education through educational research; Explore the ways and methods of educational system, educational content and educational methods reform, and provide decision-making basis for educational administrative departments to formulate educational policies, improve educational quality and school-running efficiency.
Educational research can not only improve the scientificity of educational decision-making, but also improve the management level and quality of schools.
Secondly, educational research is the basis of developing and perfecting educational science theory. Educational research is the fundamental premise of enriching and perfecting the theoretical system of educational science, and plays an important role in theoretical development and discipline construction.
Finally, educational research can enhance the research ability of researchers and is the main way to train future educational reformers. Educational scientific research is an important means to improve the comprehensive quality of researchers.
Especially for teachers, through educational research, they can explore bravely in educational practice, transition from relying solely on experience to relying on theory, master the basic theories and methods of scientific research through understanding, learning and applying educational laws, and become research-oriented and scholar-oriented teachers and future educational reformers.