@inproceedings{fernandez-etal-2026-cap, title = "{CAP}: Cross-Ability Preferences to Align Student Simulators for Item Difficulty Prediction", author = "Fernandez, Nigel and Scarlatos, Alexander and Ormerod, Christopher and Lan, Andrew", 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 = "2026", address = "Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States", publisher = "National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.aimecon-main.37/", pages = "332--344", ISBN = "979-8-9983004-0-0" }