Reality: Education Policy Research Orientation

To study the educational policy research, the meta-study, content analysis method and monographic study have been used in the research of educational system reform since the Reformation and Opening up. And the research is analyzed from the quantity change, the research field, the basic problems, the mainstream view and the research perspective.There are four features about the research of the education system reform:persisting in significant policy research, invariable echo with social changes, attracting increasing attentions from all types and levels of education and discipline fields and increasingly broad research horizons on the education system reform research.The research of the education system reform is influenced by some factors, such as persistent attention to the education system reform of the state, the obsession with the practice of the educational system reform, the constant advance of social revolution and the academic environment changing.The study is to reflect the results of the educational policy research and to reveal the attributes and influences, so as to demonstrate that the care for reality is the trend in educational policy research.