On March 9th, 2026, Short Answer was honored to be joined by a cross-institutional research team studying peer feedback, AI, and writing instruction. Marit MacArthur, Lisa Sperber, and Carl Whithaus of The University of California, Davis, and Anna Mills of College of Marin shared PAIRR, a research-informed writing pedagogy that combines structured peer review with guided AI feedback. The recording and all associated links to get started with PAIRR are below.
Webinar links
(Note: All of the following links and resources were pulled directly from the UC Davis PAIRR website. The slides from the session are here.)
1. Instructional materials
- The PAIRR materials packet is a single Google Doc with tabs for all the resources below
- Student AI literacy reading and video selections
- Additional readings for faculty considering the PAIRR approach
- PAIRR feedback prompt template #1 and PAIRR feedback prompt template #2, developed and tested in spring 2025, open for commenting and adaptation
- Student reflection questions about peer and AI feedback
- A PAIRR common writing assignment rubric developed in spring 2025 as an example of a rubric that incorporates Linguistic Justice and Equity (LJE) principles
- Demonstration chatbots where you can try PAIRR feedback prompt #1 and PAIRR feedback prompt #2 with your own assignments
2. Further readings on AI literacy for students
- A Super Short Student Orientation to AI by Anna Mills, December 2024 (slide deck)
- AI and College Writing: An Orientation for Students by Anna Mills (an OER textbook)
- AI Literacy Student Readings for Science Courses, Spring 2024
- Resources for Students to Develop Critical AI Literacy by Lisa Sperber, Sophia Minnillo, Marit MacArthur, Nick Stillman, and Carl Whithaus, University Writing Program, UC Davis, July 18, 2023
- PapyrusAI Resources, a collection from our colleagues Mark Warschauer and Tamara Tate who are researching critical reflection on AI writing feedback at University of California, Irvine
3. Further resources for assigning reflection on AI feedback
- “AI Feedback Should Be Used in a Human-Centered Process, with Peer Feedback” by Dr. Lisa Sperber
- “Peer and AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR): A Human-Centered Approach to Formative Assessment” in Computers and Composition (research discussed in webinar)
- “Bad Idea: Now that We Have AI, We Can Ditch Human Feedback! Generative Idea: Combining Peer and AI Feedback” by Lisa Sperber, forthcoming in Bad Ideas About AI and Writing
- An AI Feedback Prompt used by Lisa Sperber in Spring 2025
- MyEssayFeedback’s public library of instructor-created AI feedback prompts (filter by type and sort by popularity)
- MyEssayFeedback.ai, a not-for-profit app created by teachers
- Student Reflections on AI Feedback Assignment by Anna Mills
- AI Feedback to Support the Writing Process: The MyEssayFeedback.AI Pilot presentation slides
- Anna Mills’ Substack article “MyEssayFeedback.ai: a teacher-created app to support a human-centered writing process”