The activities and research directions of the Educational Search Strategies project are outlined in this progress report. A pilot project was undertaken to study the development of problems into research projects. The research was to be divided into three areas: problem perception and problem definition, information search and dissemination, and local information and documentation. In the process of doing its research the project had to consider data collection by interviews, data handling by rating scales, impressionistic content analysis, and computer-based content analysis. Throughout its work the project has focused more on model development than on field research. (WH)