Welcome to AzEDS reporting for Gifted Education
Beginning in FY23, the gifted and talented reporting transitioned from the SUP10 and SUP11 reports to the Gift 10 and Gift 11 reporting of gifted needs and programs.
HB 2898 established a new Group B add-on weight for gifted pupils. The new “G” weight is limited to educational programs for gifted pupils who score at or above the 97th percentile, based on national norms (age or grade norms), on a test adopted by the State Board of Education. Qualifying pupils will generate the new 0.007 Group B add-on funding beginning in FY 2022 with corresponding funding and payment reports.
The gifted program has its own new AzEDS reports, the GIFT10 and the GIFT11:
- The GIFT10 lists all students who qualify for the gifted program using your locally developed and approved criteria as specified in your LEA’s approved Scope and Sequence for Gifted Education. By reporting these students, you provide the ADE with an accurate count of students locally identified and served.
- The GIFT11 breaks down those students to their individual gifted needs of Language Arts (Verbal) giftedness, Non-Verbal giftedness, Quantitative giftedness or Other giftedness. Students that score at or above the 97th percentile on a qualifying test should be reported using the need descriptors below. The exact descriptions might vary in different Student Information Systems (SIS), please contact your SIS vendor if you have questions about how to report the required values.
| Descriptor | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Quantitative (Math) Giftedness | Student participating in educational programs for gifted pupils has scored at or above the 97th percentile for quantitative reasoning on a State Board of Education-approved test for the identification of gifted students. |
| Language Arts (Verbal) Giftedness | Student participating in educational programs for gifted pupils has scored at or above the 97th percentile for verbal reasoning on a State Board of Education-approved test for the identification of gifted students. |
| Non-Verbal Reasoning Giftedness | Student participating in educational programs for gifted pupils has scored at or above the 97th percentile for non-verbal reasoning on a State Board of Education-approved test for the identification of gifted students. |
| Other Giftedness | Student participating in educational programs for gifted pupils has scored below the 97th percentile in quantitative, verbal, or non-verbal reasoning. Students qualifying for gifted programs using "other giftedness" will not generate group b add-on funding. |
Students that have at least one of the above need descriptors (Quantitative, Verbal, or Non-Verbal) reported will generate Average Daily Membership (ADM) that is funded at the new 0.007 add-on weight for educational programs for gifted pupils. These reports can then be used in conjunction with the ADM reports to reconcile your data to the Gifted Group B funding data published by School Finance in the spring.
The student need descriptor Other Giftedness should be used to report all other students that have been identified by the LEA as gifted student, but do not meet the required identification threshold for Group B funding (97th percentile or above). These students will not generate Group B add-on funding, which is limited to students that have been reported using one of the other three descriptors after having scored at or above the 97th percentile on a test adopted by the State Board of Education.
The list of State Board Approved Tests is published on the ADE Gifted Education website.
To view the GIFT10 and GIFT11 reports, you must have the ADEConnect Role of AzEDS Coordinator – Support Program Reports. If you need assistance with the GIFT10 or GIFT11 reports, please submit a HelpDesk Ticket and an analyst will be able to assist you.
Q. Why do we report information students qualifying for gifted services and students participating in gifted programs? Isn't this the same information?
A. No. Students may be qualified for gifted services, having a qualified gifted need, but decline to participate in services. Student participation may changed at a later date. The student continues to have a gifted need regardless of program participation.
Q. How often do I need to re-assess our students to maintain gifted qualifications?
A. Students who score at or above the 97th percentile on a state board approved test for gifted identification at any time in their educational journey do not need to be requalified. A future test with lower scores will not un-qualify a student for gifted services. Example: A student scores in the 98th percentile for verbal reasoning on a state board approved test in the 2nd grade and scores in the 96th percentile in the 5th grade. This student has a qualified gifted need established in the 2nd grade and would continue to use these qualifying results beyond the 5th grade.
Q. A student scores at or above the 97th percentile in more than one category on a state-board approved test for gifted identification. Will they have more than one gifted need?
A. Yes. A student may be listed in one or more gifted need categories.
Q. Do students who have a composite score at or above the 97th percentile on a state-board approved test for gifted identification have a qualified gifted need, and if so, how do we report this information?
A. Yes, Composite scores at or above the 97th percentile are qualified for gifted group B weight funding. ADE is working to develop appropriate reporting mechanisms. In the meantime, the district will report the student in the most appropriate funded category (Verbal, Nonverbal, or Quantitative) and document that the student qualifies with a composite score.
Q. Are state assessments (AASA, AzSci, etc.) the same as state-board approved tests for gifted identification?
A. No. State-Board approved tests for gifted identification are not the same as state assessments for academic proficiency. Gifted identification tests measure general intellectual ability. High scores on a state assessment may be an indicator used in the identification process, but will not qualify a student for gifted services.
Other Funding
Gifted Education is not currently funded through legislative sources. Other funding sources include:
Title IV, Part A funds, in the ESEA Consolidated Grant, may be leveraged by schools and districts to help "promote access to accelerated learning opportunities including Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) programs, dual or concurrent enrollment programs and early college high schools*"
Examples of support may include:
- Providing funding to cover part or all of the cost of AP Exam fees for students in all schools (not just Title I schools)
- Increasing student access to, and improving student achievement in, postsecondary level instruction and exams
- Funding specific AP courses/exams
*Reference: Non-Regulatory Guidance, Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grant
Please visit the Title IV-A website for more information.