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Permanent teams are a staple of TBL, but I haven't seen much empirical
work supporting this. Here's one paper that does find support (though it
isn't TBL). The last author is a noted physics education researcher.
    - Bill

Peer Instruction in Introductory Physics: A Method to Bring About Positive
Changes in Students' Attitudes and Beliefs
Ping Zhang, Lin Ding, and Eric Mazur
Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res., 113, 010104-1-9 (2017).
https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.13.010104 

Abstract:

This paper analyzes pre-post matched gains in the epistemological views of
science students taking the introductory physics course at Beijing Normal
University (BNU) in China. In this study we examined the attitudes and
beliefs of science majors (n = 441) in four classes, one taught using
traditional (lecture) teaching methods, and the other three taught with
Peer Instruction (PI). In two of the PI classes, student peer groups were
constantly changing throughout the semester, while in the other PI class
student groups remained fixed for the duration of the semester. The
results of the pre- and posttest using the Colorado Learning Attitudes
about Science Survey showed that students in traditional lecture settings
became significantly more novice-like in their beliefs about physics and
learning physics over the course of a semester, a result consistent with
what was reported in the literature. However, all three of the classes
taught using the PI method improved student attitudes and beliefs about
physics and learning physics. In the PI class with fixed peer groups,
students exhibited a greater positive shift in attitudes and beliefs than
in the other PI class with changing peer groups. The study also looked at
gender differences in student learning attitudes. Gender results revealed
that female science majors in the PI classes achieved a greater positive
shift in attitudes and beliefs after instruction than did male students.



-- 
Bill Goffe
Senior Lecturer
Department of Economics
Penn State University
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