According to Mortimore (2000), educational research has four tasks: to observe and record systematically, to analyze and draw out implications, to publish findings, and to improve educational processes and outcomes. To publish the results of an investigation is one of the most important parts of research process. Ray (2006) emphasized that the aim of scientific investigation was publication and he noted the following statement: "If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it fall, does it make sound? The correct answer is no. Sound is more than, 'pressure waves' and indeed there can be no sound without a hearer. And similarly, scientific communication is a two-way process. Just as a signal of any kind is useless unless it is both received and understood by its intended audience." As can be understood from Ray's expression, educational research like the others is done to be released for related people.
Educational researchers have queried themselves about what do they do, who read their articles, who use researches' results, etc. While some researchers emphasize that educational research's potential to guide the practice which consists of teachers, school leaders and policy makers (Mortimore, 2000; Hargreaves, 1997; Hemsley-Brown & Sharp, 2003), the others suggest that educational researches cannot be educative always but informative (Hammersley, 2003). Eventually, educational researchers are still discussing on aims, nature, understanding and methods of educational research (Vanderlinde and Braak, 2010).
There are numerous investigations which aimed to determine teachers' (Shkedi, 1998) and school leaders' (Vanderlinde and Braak, 2010) opinions on educational research.  However, the researches which publicly uncover what educational researchers think about this are limited. In this context, it is aimed to reveal views of emerging researchers who form the future of educational researchers' community on educational research process.  For this purpose, the following research questions are addressed:
1.    According to emerging researchers, what is educational research?
a.    What does it include?
2.    According to emerging researchers, for what is educational research published?
a.    Who should benefit from?
3.    According to emerging researchers, how can be educational research become more useful?

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