Caring Teaching as a Moral Practice: An Exploratory Study on Perceived Dimensions of Caring Teaching

Table 4

Four dimensions of caring teaching.

Dimensions	Items	Alpha 𝛼	Mean	SD
Nurture students’ character	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	0.85	3.94	0.68
Didactical bias	8, 9, 10	0.77	2.52	0.93
Awareness	11, 12, 13, 14	0.69	4.40	0.54
Respectful didactics	15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21	0.78	3.63	0.68
Caring teaching scale		0.83	3.72	0.48