Identifying the research needs and priorities for Education: Office of Education, Khorasan Razavi

The purpose of this study is to identifying research needs and their priority in the office of Education, Razavi Khorasan. This regard, the survey research method used. All of the interested and relevant groups of province Education, the development documents of Education such as the national and provincial document and the existent research were s selected as population. The research needs and priorities were identified through Interviews, focus group discussions, and content analysis of documents. Based on results, research needs 394 were identified. The most important research needs were prioritized through Consensus of the participants in the focus group sessions, Evaluation of conducted research, examine and judge members of the provincial education and compliance with the identified needs, then, the 185 of them were extracted.