@inproceedings{olivera-aguilar-etal-2026-rethinking,
    title = "Rethinking Pilot Data: Evaluating {LLM} Synthetic Data for Scale Development",
    author = "Olivera-Aguilar, Margarita  and
      Rikoon, Samuel H.  and
      Bailey, Paul D.  and
      Kruse, Michael B.  and
      Middlebrook, Kamal",
    editor = "Wilson, Joshua  and
      Ormerod, Christopher  and
      Beiting-Parrish, Magdalen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference ({AIME}-Con): Works in Progress",
    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-wip.9/",
    pages = "62--68",
    ISBN = "979-8-9983004-1-7"
}