1. Experience summary method: Educational management research originated from the summary and reflection of educational administrative practice by principals or heads of educational administrative departments in primary and secondary schools.

2. Literature analysis: Educational management research should focus on collecting valuable literature in educational life.

3. Investigation method: mainly including questionnaire method and interview method, which can provide a lot of accurate and valuable information for the formation background, implementation process and effect of education policy.

4. Experimental research method: it is a study of creating an educational situation, changing one variable in this situation, thus causing corresponding changes in other variables, and looking for causality from it. Educational administration involves many uncontrollable factors, and quasi-experimental design is often used in experimental design of educational administration.

5. Research methods of cultural anthropology: researchers are required to enter the scene of human life without any assumptions, observe, record and describe people's lives calmly, and thus discover some invisible laws and concepts in life. The cultural anthropology research of educational management tries to discover the life reality, work desire and basic laws of grassroots educators.

6. Comparative research method: Comparative research was originally the impression of some educators on traveling and going abroad. With the birth of comparative pedagogy, comparative methods have also been extended to the field of educational management. Today's educational administration comparison includes international comparison and comparison between different regions in the same country.