Recent research has uncovered significant concerns about the validity of some types of college student self-reports. This study examines the extent to which student reports about a critical type of college experience—good teaching practices—may be biased as a function of students’ intellectual orientations and cognitive reasoning abilities. Perceptions of instruction and instructional practices are especially important in higher education, given their increasing use for institutional quality assurance, as well as faculty rehiring and promotion processes. Using a large, multi-institutional, longitudinal dataset of first-year students, this study shows that several cognitive indicators predict perceptions of six different sets of good teaching practices and that these relationships do not seem to be explained by actual differences in students’ experiences. Additional analyses indicate that halo effects, in which global evaluations of instructor quality and institutional satisfaction affect students’ perceptions of their engagement with good practices, may partially explain these findings. The results provide important implications for practice and research related to college student survey data, including ways that these biases can be reduced or eliminated to more accurately capture students’ engagement in good practices and the factors that may contribute to students’ perceptions of their environment.

最近的研究发现了对某些类型的大学生自我报告的有效性的重大担忧。这项研究调查了学生报告某种关键类型的大学经历（良好的教学实践）的程度可能会因学生的智力取向和认知推理能力而产生偏差。鉴于对教学和教学实践的理解在高等教育中尤其重要，因为它们越来越多地用于机构质量保证以及教师的聘用和晋升过程。使用大型的，多机构的，纵向的一年级学生数据集，这项研究表明，几种认知指标可以预测对六种不同的良好教学实践的认知，并且这些关系似乎并不能由学生体验的实际差异来解释。其他分析表明，光环效应可以部分地解释这些发现，其中，对教师素质和机构满意度的全球评估会影响学生对他们对良好实践的参与感。结果为与大学生调查数据相关的实践和研究提供了重要的启示，包括可以减少或消除这些偏见以更准确地捕捉学生对良好实践的参与以及可能有助于学生对环境的感知的因素的方式。其中对教师素质和机构满意度的全球评估会影响学生对他们对良好实践的参与的看法，这可能部分地解释了这些发现。结果为与大学生调查数据相关的实践和研究提供了重要的启示，包括可以减少或消除这些偏见以更准确地捕捉学生对良好实践的参与以及可能有助于学生对环境的感知的因素的方式。其中对教师素质和机构满意度的全球评估会影响学生对他们对良好实践的参与的看法，这可能部分地解释了这些发现。结果为与大学生调查数据相关的实践和研究提供了重要的启示，包括可以减少或消除这些偏见以更准确地捕捉学生对良好实践的参与以及可能有助于学生对环境的感知的因素的方式。