Abstract: Educational research is based on the study of educational affairs itself,and thus contributed to the improvement of real education life.The ideal educational research is from the educational facts,but it also shows the inherent direction of real education and the possibility of real education to improve.Everyfact of education not only has objectivity,but also contains the possibility that the main body of education practitioners will integrate themselves into the reality of education,grasp the truth of education and improve the reality of education.This means that the educational facts faced by educational researchers are the unity of objective educational reality and subjective expectations of education.Education research should be problem-centered,not only to explain the reality of education,but also to explain the educational ideal conceived in the meantime,that is,the possibility of education,so as to highlight the findings of educational research and enhance the good will of education world.To this end,education research should not only reveal,explain the causal relationship contained in education and even predict the development trend of education through a variety of empirical research,experiments and data tips,but also highlight the humanistic interest in educational practice through a variety of philosophical theoretical speculation.Both are the different dimensions of the return,interpretation and resolution of the educational problem itself.Thus,good educational research is to face the research of education itself,and speculative research and empirical research should be the basic paradigm of educational research.Therefore,a good education research is a research that confronts the educational issue itself.Both speculative research and empirical research should become the basic paradigm of education research.Today's educational research requires the diversity of methods to effectively enhance their possibilities of interpreting and leading educational practices.

Key words: educational research, educational research methods, speculative research, empirical research