Aashna Khurana

Aashna Khurana is a Ph.D. student in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. She is also a professional special educator and has worked as an Assessment Associate at ASER Centre, Pratham Education Foundation. She has worked on development of Assessment for All (AfA) Tool, focused on including children with special needs in large scale assessments in India, and ASER 2019 Early Years tool to assess numeracy, literacy, cognitive and socio-emotional skills of children aged 4-8 years. She has understanding of large-scale surveys, and in design, development, translation of assessment tools in various regional languages. She has also developed frameworks for assessments, translations and adaptations, textbooks analysis and adapted curriculum to address the needs of children with disabilities. Currently, she is one of the lead researchers on the Boston Public Schools Inclusion Initiative that aims to reform inclusive education service delivery system. Her research interests lie in the areas of inclusive education, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), inclusive assessments and leadership for school improvement.

Publications

Creating an International Collaboratory for Leadership in Universally Designed Education: INCLUDE as a Global Community of Practice
Creating an International Collaboratory for Leadership in Universally Designed Education: INCLUDE as a Global Community of Practice
Elizabeth Minchin Dalton, Richard M. Jackson, Sean Bracken, Ashiya Abdool Satar, Mustapha Aabi, Aashna Khurana, Luigia Nicholas, Oressa K. Power, Linda Plantin Ewe. © 2023. 20 pages.
To foster strong global movements toward more inclusive educational resources around the world, higher education serves a crucial role. Universities face numerous challenges in...