Canadian educators, researchers, and politicians gathered for a two-day conference in 1977 on the question of how educational research affects the formation of educational policy. The sixteen speakers analyzed the basic question from the points of view of the provincial politician, the school board chairman, the administrator, and the researcher, as well as in terms of large urban districts, smaller districts, governmental bureaucracies and financial structures, and public opinion, among others. Three summarizing statements concluded the conference. (PGD)