In the earlier study, Park (2002) described the process of students` conceptual change as a successive refinement and articulation of their conceptual framework. In this study, the process of conceptual change for three university students were analyz...
In the earlier study, Park (2002) described the process of students` conceptual change as a successive refinement and articulation of their conceptual framework. In this study, the process of conceptual change for three university students were analyzed more in depth. As results, six types of conceptual change through successive refinement and articulation were observed: (1) original conception was elaborated in detail, (2) conception was differentiated according to the context, (3) some conceptions were re-explained theoretically after constructing it based on experimental data, (4) non-coherent conceptions in the early stage get to have coherency in the later stage, (5) model of explanation gets to be complicated by excluding ideal conditions, (6)qualitative explanations were changed into quantitative ones.