In the context of the scientific-technical revolution and current knowledge, societies require specialists with a suitable preparation in the field of scientific research, for the mastery of strategies for the advantageous solution of problems of practice that implies their diagnosis, the determination of ways of solution and evaluation. This text deals with crucial aspects of this process: the problems of the practice of the socio-productive activity and their determination; the stages of the process of a research, the types of research; the design of an educational research and its correspondence with the selected paradigm; the techniques to analyze the problems and determine the solution strategies, their application and the evaluation of their results; the elaboration of the scientific report of the result of the research; the socialization and publication of the scientific results. The systems of scientific events; and the link between the scientific-research dimension of pedagogical work and the professionalization of teachers.