The usefulness of educational research for politicians and administrators in the education field

The question of the usefulness of educational research has been of interest and concern in recent years to researchers in the education field. Writings have focused on the usefulness that teachers themselves derive from this research, and the assessments that we make in this work arise from those reflections. We believe that the subject has a greater depth than may at first be apparent, inasmuch as, although education professionals "need" this type of research, we might ask ourselves if universities or society itself could do without this type of research. This article presents a perennially relevant problem, namely the importance attributed by administrators and politicians in the education field to educational research. We present two research alternatives: meta-analysis and evaluative research, which provide greater reliability for education administrators and may affect their decision making.