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Introduction
Based on the answers to these questions we will make some recommendations 1 for secondary schools that could improve the transition between secondary and
university education.
1.7 Overview of the chapters
is thesis consists of ve studies, which are brie y described below. Figure 1.2 shows whether the studies were conducted in secondary education, in university, or in both. Table 1.1 at the end of this Introduction presents an overview of all studies, including their research questions, sample, method, and the independent and dependent variables of interest.
Secondary school
University
Grade 10
Grade 11
Grade 12
Year 1
Chapter 3: Review
Chapter 4: Self-efficacy
Chapter 6: Teachers
Chapter 5: Engagement profiles
Chapter 7: Adjustment
Figure 1.2 Overview of where the ve studies were conducted
1.7.1 Chapter 3: A systematic review of factors related to rst-year students’ success in higher education
As pointed out above, there is not much research that speci cally focuses on the transition from secondary to postsecondary education, which is why the starting point for this research was to look at what factors in uence rst year students’ success in postsecondary education. However, although there are some important international reviews on student success factors (e.g., Robbins et al. (2004) and Richardson et al. (2012)), these results may not necessarily transfer to the context in the Netherlands. Furthermore, these reviews focused on undergraduate education, not speci cally on rst-year students, who make up the population of interest when investigating the transition. In addition, many studies look at one or
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