Traditional STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) degrees focus on convergent skills whereas art degrees focus on divergent skills.
"Comparative genomics reveals a constant rate of origination and convergent acquisition of functional retrogenes in Drosophila".
The construct validity was confirmed by finding moderate and positive correlations between life satisfaction and self-concept and social skills (convergent validity) and lower and negative correlation with childhood stress (divergent validity).
To be creative, engineers therefore must develop skills in divergent thinking, skills in convergent thinking, and the ability to know when each should be applied.
Applying this approach to bird species differing in degrees of social complexity seems promising and may expand our understanding of avian cognition and convergent evolution of sociocognitive skills.
The results provide evidence of context specificity of communication skills, as well as convergent and criterion-related validity of communication skills.
It is by now an obvious statement that companies compete on the strengths of their knowledge workers – people who "think for a living" by applying convergent, divergent, and creative thinking skills.
The objective of this first study was to test the Internet Skills Scale structure and convergent validity (van Deursen & van Dijk, 2016; van Deursen et al., 2012) in a sample of college aged Latin American students.
Convergent validation of the Kohlman Evaluation of Living Skills as a screening tool of older adults' ability to live safely and independently in the community.
What may be needed is the improvement of our skills in distinguishing common ancestry from convergent or parallel evolution in the case of compositionally biased proteins.
Total scores from the refined 28-item SSSMQ, were moderately and in most cases, significantly associated, in expected directions with variables hypothesised to influence stroke self-management attitudes, behaviours and skills (Table 2) providing preliminary evidence of convergent validity.
