monitorial

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In eighteenth-century America, one-room schoolhouses employed the monitorial method, in which older students evaluated the recitations of younger ones.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2014

In 1818 there were only one hundred and sixty-five thousand scholars in the monitorial schools—the new schools, which were being established under the auspices of the National Society, and the British and Foreign School Society.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

Further, the same causes which reduced the control of masters, also embarrassed the upper boys in their monitorial duties. 

From Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth by Skrine, John Huntley

“Where are you off to?” asked Fairbairn, with due monitorial solemnity, of that flighty youth; “don’t you know it’s nearly eight?”

From The Willoughby Captains by Reed, Talbot Baines

Such, little though they cared for their much vaunted hero-martyr, were delighted with any policy which presented them with an opportunity of pursuing a career of misdemeanour under monitorial authority.

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian