If a student has been identified as gifted in another state, will he/she be eligible for gifted program placement in Utah?
There is no reciprocal eligibility from state to state, each state establishes its own definition of giftedness and its own rules governing gifted education services. However, many states’ definitions are similar, so we hope to be able to establish transferring students’ eligibility for gifted program placement here in Utah with little or no additional testing. The most expedient way to nominate an out-of-state transfer for possible gifted program placement is to collect all assessment data and present those assessment results to the gifted program teacher at the student’s new school or to the district’s gifted program coordinator at the time of registration. Helpful documents might include: original eligibility reports, recent standardized test scores, work samples, and recommendations from current teachers. Gifted program personnel in the receiving school system can then evaluate the types of tests that were given, the dates of those tests, etc., and determine what additional testing
