“…Along with instructional instructions, the classroom environment and role of the teacher are very important for learning outcomes among students' at all educational levels generally and at the tertiary level particularly (Altbach, Reisberg, & Rumbley, 2019;. To measure the students' academic performance in higher education institutions, multiple methods had been adopted to study the issue such as qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, observational method, and content analysis techniques (Ali & Naveed, 2020;Ayala & Contreras, 2018;Clement & Kataeva, 2018;Lynch & Hennessy, 2017;Semela, Bekele, & Abraham, 2017;Shoaib & Ullah, 2019;Verge, Ferrer-Fons, & González, 2017). Along with these methods, different tools have also been used to measure the students' academic performance at tertiary levels (Bachan, 2017;Bagguley & Hussain, 2014;Phipps & Young, 2015;Shoaib & Ullah, 2019).…”