Shared control over task selection 1Running head: SHARED CONTROL OVER TASK SELECTION This is a pre-print of the article that was published as Corbalan, G., Kester, L., & Van Merriënboer, J .J. G. (2006). Towards a personalized task selection model with shared instructional control. Instructional Science, 34 , 399-422. http://www.springerlink.com/content/k476v5x576125823/ owards a Personalized Task Selection Model with Shared Instructional Control Gemma Corbalan* Liesbeth Kester Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer Open University of the Netherlands, Educational Technology Expertise Center P.O. Box 2960, 6401 DL Heerlen, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31 45 5762909, Fax: +31 45 5762802 Email: gemma.corbalan@ou.nl ------------------------------------------ This research project is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, The Hague, project no. 411-02-107-V). 1