Test Anxiety and Online Proctored Exams

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1. 11 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   1 flagged finding: a quote attributed to Flett and Hewitt's 2002 perfectionism textbook specifically about 'remote monitoring' and 'the proctor' -- anachronistic, since online proctoring did not become a mainstream exam format until circa 2015-2020, well after the cited book's publication.

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   "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

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   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.

   Why: 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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