The Nevada State Board of Education Teacher and Student Exams (1894, 1927-1931) consists of a 1894 testing booklet from the Nevada State Board of Education containing questions to test the knowledge of teachers. The test includes subjects such as physiology, reading, orthography, geography, and United States history. The collection also contains Nevada Elementary Examination sheets from 1927 to 1931, intended to test students on a variety of subjects including arithmetic, spelling, civics, penmanship, reading and grammar, and United States history.
The Nevada State Board of Education Teacher and Student Exams (1894, 1927-1931) consists of a 1894 testing booklet from the Nevada State Board of Education containing questions to test the knowledge of teachers. The test includes subjects such as physiology, reading, orthography, geography, and United States history. The collection also contains Nevada Elementary Examination sheets from 1927 to 1931, intended to test students on a variety of subjects including arithmetic, spelling, civics, penmanship, reading and grammar, and United States history.
Collection is open for research.
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Materials remain in original order.
The Nevada State Board of Education Teacher and Student Exams, 1894-1931. MS-00036. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Materials were purchased in 1974 from Shelly Stamp Company; accession number 74-297. Additional material was donated at an unknown time to UNLV Special Collections and Archives and added into the collection.
In 2016, as part of a legacy finding aid conversion project, Hana Gutierrez created the collection description and brought it into compliance with current professional standards. In 2025, Sarah Jones added the 1927-1931 student exams into the collection.