One hundred years ago. Nursing education at the dawn of the 20th century.

The late 19th and early 20th centuries ushered in a number of significant events that helped advance the nursing profession in its early development. Nursing leaders began to show interest in the reform movements under way, such as woman's suffrage, settlement houses, and labor activities. They knew that nurses were not alone in their struggle to improve the health of the public.

The development of objective techniques to measure nursing knowledge, 1941-1952.

An indirect by-product of A Curriculum Guide for Schools of Nursing, released by the National League of Nursing Education (NLNE) in 1937, was the attention it focused on evaluating the nursing student objectively (1). The first such guide had been issued 20 years earlier and revised in 1927, with only a slight modification. During the NLNE annual convention one year after publication of the final revision, a Joint Committee on Nursing Test was appointed to consider the possibility of developing objective techniques to measure nursing on a cooperative basis.

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