@inproceedings{demirkaya-etal-2025-simulating, title = "Simulating Rating Scale Responses with {LLM}s for Early-Stage Item Evaluation", author = "Demirkaya, Onur and Wei, Hsin-Ro and Johnson, Evelyn", editor = "Wilson, Joshua and Ormerod, Christopher and Beiting Parrish, Magdalen", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Full Papers", month = oct, year = "2025", address = "Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh, Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States", publisher = "National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.aimecon-main.41/", pages = "385--392", ISBN = "979-8-218-84228-4" }