“…Similarly, in line with the findings of Stone, Koskey and Sondergeld (2011) whose study included five-year successive investigation by using examination data, examinees were at good performance with a favourable standing, where students who participated in the exercises fell within advanced and proficient standing. In contrary to the finding of this study, Khatimin, Zaharim and Aziz (2014) however, found that, after identifying the mastery levels of -0.08 logits, 74% of the examinees were categorized into performance levels below basic and that, only 26% of the students attained the acceptable mastery levels. This means that, the students in their study did not reach the mastery levels to answer the questions correctly.…”