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

Had he not once offered to quit from his monitorial work to help in the shop and had not his offer been firmly refused?…

From The Foolish Lovers by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)

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

I’m afraid we shall have a regular monitorial row.

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)