summative assessment seen as harmful.

I went on a visit to a school open day for parents of prospective students, and I took the oppertunity to do a survey of the teachers present. I was asking about IT use in the main, but I asked the religion teacher how you teach religion. Well this obviously depends on the course, and as she said she is not looking to convert, but to inform and there is a lot of comparative religion material in the course. However one remark struck me: She said the students were generally fine and interested in first and second year, but when they got to third year and realized that there was an exam at the end of it, teaching them became more up-hill work.