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

When the monitorial schools were established they tended to restrict their membership in a similar manner, though not always able to do so.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

As the numbers increased he established a monitorial system, by which many of the lesser breaches of discipline were dealt with by the boys themselves.

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Bell, Edward Allen

He had not been seen since his escape from the monitorial fangs after morning school.

From The Willoughby Captains by Reed, Talbot Baines

He also adopted the monitorial method, but, as a Quaker, omitting the Church teaching of the Bell schools. 

From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by Walter, James Conway