The purpose of this study was to examine college students' perceptions of their teaching assistants' self-disclosure behavior in the classroom. Students in the introductory speech course rated their teaching assistants' self-disclosure based on positive and negative statements. In addition, student rated the self-disclosure on intent to disclose, amount of disclosure, depth of disclosure, accuracy/honesty of the disclosure, positive or negative nature of self-disclosure. Results indicate that students are able to discern their teaching assistants self-disclosure behaviors. (Contains 2 tables.)