“…The second section measures the students' perception of the CRT through the Students Measure of Culturally Responsive Teaching Scale (SMCRT) (Dickson, Chun & Fernandez, 2016;Huang, 2019). The Italian version of these instruments (Bosco, Fabbri & Giampaolo, 2022) present a good internal consistency (α = 0.90) and, as the original scale (Huang, 2019), is composed of 23 items which use a five-point Likert scales (from 1 = Never to 5 = Always) to collect measures on its factors: i) diverse teaching practices (α = 0.85), ii) cultural engagement practices (α = 0.82), and iii) relationship building practices (α = 0.79). Scores are summated across 23 items and measure the higher/lower degree of culturally responsive teaching.…”