The Major purpose of this department is to identify the problems for research in the districts, doing action research supervision and feeding into TPD, PSTE, etc. To achieve its objectives, it should undertake the following activities.

• Formulate the district research committee (DRC) at the district level consisting of the Principal as the head and Vice principal, two experts from colleges of Education/ department of universities and the research coordinator, as the members of the DRC. The committee shall evaluate and approve the research proposals for Action research and for District specific research projects.
• Frame the yearly timetable for research activities at the beginning of each academic year and the detailed guidelines and procedures to implement research programmes.
• Identify areas/problems for action research, surveys, carryout relevant research studies, and disseminate the findings through workshops and publications.
• Feed the findings of the action research into other departments like TPD, and PSTE
• Publish the consolidated research documents every year.
• Undertake yearly school-based projects so as to give attention to thrust areas of school education so as to gain valuable insights which can be utilized for pinpointing and framing training needs.
• Monitor and supervise all programmes implemented by SCERT and gather relevant data that can be used for improving the In-service programmes.
• Establish feedback mechanisms and analysis for evaluating the effectiveness and appropriateness of trainings so as to make changes if required. This can be based on the performance of the school students in various board examinations (X, XI and XII), NAS and SEAS.
• Assort data from various stakeholders of school education so that SCERT can design and implement relevant trainings, workshops and refresher courses that need based and feasible.
• Collect data periodically to ascertain various aspects of Teachers Professional Development (TPD) and report them to government from time to time for policy input.