The main purpose of this study is to examine the current status of secondGl)'rnschool teachers' involvement in educational research in Afar Regional State andrnto identifY the major impediments that hinder teachers from research undertaking.rnTo achieve this objective, a descriptive survey method was employed. In this study,rndata were collected ji"Oln teachers, principals, zonal and regional educationrnofficials through questionl1aire and interview. Questionnaire consisting oj" 40rnitems was distributed to 92 secondary school teachers who are working in thefivernschools of Afar Region. From the distributed questionnaire 93.5 %(86) of themrnwere filled in and returned. Interviews were conducted with five school principals,rntwo zonal and one regional education officials. The secured data through theserninstruments were analyzed using narrative description, percentage, mean, chisquare,rnt-test and one way repeated measure ANOVA.rnThe findings of the study revealed that almost half of the respondent teachers didrnnot take research methodology course while they were in higher institutions. Evenrnfrom those teachers who took the course, 35.42% of them assured that the trainingrnthey took was not adequate to enable them undertake educational research. Onrntop of this, concerned bodies in the region did not provide training in research forrnthese teachers in the form of workshop, seminar or in-service training in order tornup-grade their research knowledge. In addition to this, there were no up-to-daternreference materials that acquaint teachers with research methodology, there werernno Budgets allocated for research; there was no research coordinating body inrnzonal, woreda or school level and incentives were not provided for teachers whornwere engaged in research. Although almost all of the teachers in the samplernschools have a positive attitude and interest towards conducting educationalrnresearch, only 5.95% of them were engaged in educational research due to thernreasons mentioned above. The major constraints that block teachers from carryingrnout research activities were therefore, lack of conducive environment for research,rnlack of support from concerned authorities, lack of experience in how to dorneducational research and lack of materials for research. Generally, the factorsrncollected enabled to make a conclusion that the research involvement ofrnsecondary school teachers of this region was found to be low. Therefore, tornpopularize and promote research activities of secondary school teachers of thisrnregion, it is recommended that Afar Region Education Bureau should up-gradernteachers' knowledge and skills by organizing and conducting in-service training,rnworkshop or seminar in sustained fashion. In addition to this, concerned bodiesrnneed to create favorable conditions for research by allocating fund for research,rnby equipping school libraries with recent reference materials and by providingrnsufficient stationery for teacher researchers