Prioritization of the Skills to Be Mastered for the Daily Jobs of Japanese Dental Hygienists

Figure 1

The item response curves and item information curves of the representative items from each cluster. The horizontal axis, known as ability according to item response theory, indicates the dental hygienists who performed a number of daily dental jobs. The vertical axis of the item response curve indicates the percentage of individuals who perform each work-related task. The vertical axis of the item information curve indicated the ability of each item to distinguish the number of daily dental hygienist jobs. Details of the clusters are shown in Table S1.

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