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

This was an improvement on the waning monitorial training system previously in use.

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

Had the monitorial system existed, that contagion could have been effectually checked; but, as it was, brute force had unlimited authority.

From Eric, or Little by Little by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

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

A great many were talking at once, and every tongue was engaged in discussing the propriety, in this instance, of any monitorial interference.

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