The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain the phenomenon of methodological creativity (creativeness) in pedagogical (educational) research. “Methodological creativity” is a creative attitude adopted by researchers who are not limited to the duplication of existing research procedures and methods, they discover and define new research problems and innovatively construct and carry out research, and then create a new quality on this basis in the field of science. The author, on the basis of the definition of methodological creativity by Dariusz Kubinowski, describes in subsequent parts of the article the components of this creativity, broken down into stages of research. It also raises several questions about whether and how methodological creativity is used as a criterion for evaluating research projects and formulates a negative conclusion on the subject.