Startmonitor: Dutch Higher Education Student Entry Survey, September 2020

The Startmonitor is a survey project by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) and ResearchNed. It tracks the information use, study choice process, and first-year integration and satisfaction of new students in higher education to identify determinants of study success and dropout. This deposit contains the September 2020 survey, part of the 2020-2021 academic year cycle, which has been conducted annually since 2008-2009.

Use Cases

• Modeling first-year student dropout risk based on determinants of study success mentioned in the description
• Analyzing patterns in student information use and study choice processes described in the survey
• Tracking longitudinal trends in student integration and satisfaction since the project's 2008-2009 start
• Evaluating the impact of student guidance and onboarding practices on early academic outcomes

Strengths

• Longitudinal project conducted annually since the 2008-2009 academic year
• Survey is part of a structured two-wave annual design (September and June) implemented from 2018-2019
• Project is conducted by a named research organization (ResearchNed) for a government ministry (OCW)

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data reflects the specific context of Dutch higher education, which may limit generalizability

Provenance

Source

ResearchNed for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW)

Collection Method

Survey (questionnaire)

Time Range

September 2020 (part of the 2020-2021 academic year cycle)

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-24 03:51:31; freshness should be verified

Geography

Netherlands (Dutch higher education)