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

The unfortunate effects of the monitorial system upon English education show the reality of the service which this religious congregation rendered to the national pedagogy in France.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

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 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

“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