“…Therefore, researchers have tried to find the underlying structures of students' reasoning. They describe students' ideas about science either as loose fragments (diSessa, 1993;diSessa et al, 2004), synthetic models (Vosniadou et al, 2001;Vosniadou, 2012Vosniadou, , 2019Vosniadou & Skopeliti, 2014;Vosniadou & Verschaffel, 2004) or an incorrect evaluation on the ontological level (Chi, 2005;Chi et al, 2012;Chi, 2013;Henderson et al, 2017). Making use of multiple perspectives on conceptual change might allow gaining further insight into students thinking about the particulate nature of matter (Chiu & Chung, 2013;Harrison & Treagust, 2001;Stamovlasis et al, 2013).…”