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

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.)

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

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

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