Posted on website ClassTools.net, this tool helps instructors (and others) to select names from their class list at random. No creator name (or date) is given.
Posted by Selena on her blog, learning elearning, May 24 2012. A brief discussion of several options in "classroom observation software," which records a "classroom walk-through" and then allows users to further analyze classroom interactions.
Jointly authored by researchers, faculty, and administrators from The Center for Student Success and the RP group (the Research and Planning Gropu for California Community Colleges), March 2007.
Authored by the Committee on Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn and the National Research Council, published in 2003. This page offers free PDF download, as well as hardback copy for purchase.
By Henry M. Levin and Juan Carlos Calcagno, published in the Community College Review, vol 35 #3, pp. 181-207, January 2008. This link provides a brief abstract and citation. Link to full-text PDF (purchase). For full article, see your local library.