The exact change
"The addition of active remote monitoring to an already stressful examination situation creates a second evaluative audience -- the proctor -- whose standards and responses are uncertain to the test-taker. Uncertainty about evaluation criteria is a primary driver of evaluative anxiety." -- Flett and Hewitt, Perfectionism: Theory, Research, and Practice, 2002
The addition of active remote monitoring to an already stressful examination situation creates a second evaluative audience whose standards and responses are uncertain to the test-taker, and uncertainty about evaluation criteria is a primary driver of evaluative anxiety, a dynamic consistent with the broader perfectionism and evaluative-anxiety research described by Flett and Hewitt.
Suggested change
De-attributed the quote to plain unattributed prose preserving the underlying claim, removing the impossible/anachronistic attribution.
Why this is better
Removed a quote attributed to Flett and Hewitt's 2002 perfectionism textbook that specifically referenced "remote monitoring" and "the proctor," an anachronistic attribution since online proctoring did not become a mainstream exam format until circa 2015-2020, well after the cited book's publication. Converted to unattributed prose that preserves the underlying claim and still credits Flett and Hewitt's real research generally.
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