@inproceedings{acquaye-etal-2026-take, title = "Take Out Your Calculators: Estimating the Real Difficulty of Question Items with {LLM} Student Simulations", author = "Acquaye, Christabel and Huang, Yi Ting and Carpuat, Marine and Rudinger, Rachel", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.findings-acl.1807/", pages = "36246--36267", ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1" }