Washington Administrative Code
Title 392 - Public Instruction, Superintendent of
Chapter 392-170 - Special service program-Highly capable students
Section 392-170-036 - Definition - Learning characteristics

(1) Capacity to learn with unusual depth of understanding, to retain what has been learned, and to transfer learning to new situations;

(2) Capacity and willingness to deal with increasing levels of abstraction and complexity earlier than their chronological peers;

(3) Ability to make unusual connections among ideas and concepts;

(4) Ability to learn very quickly in their area(s) of intellectual strength;

(5) Capacity for intense concentration and/or focus.