To ensure that resource assignments may be appropriately allocated on a sound basis, this study was designed to provide the Arizona research coordinating unit of career and vocational education with a prioritized list of vocational education research needs. Representatives from all levels of vocational education in Arizona were assembled to identify broad problem categories which later provided the core from which the problem rating identification instrument was developed. In phase I of the study, this instrument was mailed to 1,850 Arizona educators representing five service areas, local and State administration, and teacher education. In phase II a stratified random sampling of the data collected was divided into two categories: Researchable items and problems. The researchable items were then reworded into research statements. Finally in phase III, the 10 most identified research statements were ranked in order of importance. Samples of all survey instruments used are appended. (BM)