A History of Conceptual Change Research

This design-based research project contributed to a much richer design, and a more informed theoretical perspective of the challenges and opportunities associated with Web supported communities. This design process allows the researcher to move beyond simply understanding the world as it is, and involves working to change it in useful ways with the broader goal of examining how these systematic changes influence learning and practice). It is this innovative aspect of design-based research that makes it such a useful methodology for advancing new theory and practice. Presented two designbased research projects in order to highlight the notion of theory-in-action as a core focus of this type of work. In the first example,  described how we used our design work to illuminate the limitation in our thinking with respect to a theory about evolving online community. Through our design-based work, we moved from a rather na¨ıve notion of “if we build it, they will come” to a focus on meeting local needs of bounded groups with community being an emergent result. Additionally, we developed other insights around issues of sociability, bounded groups, and trust. Using the second example, I illustrated how we used design-based research to evolve a theoretical framework called learning engagement theory.
In the beginning we had a relatively na¨ıve understanding of the theory and what it meant in terms of practice. Over time, as we used the design work to understand the interrelations of theory and context, we evolved our thinking – moving from a theory for design to a theory-in-context about experience.



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1)Which methods can determine the students' misconceptions?