Learning Assessment & Planning Tools
These interactive tools are designed to help prospective learners understand which Thrive Learning Community programs best align with their goals, current skill levels, and scheduling availability. Your assessment results are generated entirely in your browser and are not stored or transmitted. Use these recommendations as a starting point for your enrollment conversation with our intake counselors.
Personalized Program Recommendation
Answer five questions about your educational background, goals, and availability to receive a tailored program recommendation with estimated completion timeline.
Learning Readiness Self-Assessment
Answer five quick questions to receive a personalized program recommendation and skill-level pathway tailored to your goals.
Financial Planning Estimator
Most of our programs are entirely grant-funded. Use this tool to estimate any out-of-pocket costs for supplemental workshops, materials, and optional add-on services.
Program Investment Estimator
Most of our core programs are offered at no cost through grant funding. Use this tool to estimate costs for supplemental workshops and materials.
Optional Add-On Resources:
Your Estimated Investment:
Financial assistance and sliding-scale fee waivers are available. No learner is turned away for inability to pay.
Understanding Your Assessment Results
The Learning Readiness Self-Assessment uses your responses to match you with the program track that best fits your stated goal, then estimates a starting skill level and projected completion timeline based on your reported education history, weekly availability, and digital comfort level. These estimates are approximations designed to give you a reasonable expectation before meeting with an intake counselor.
Skill Level Definitions
Foundational: Learners at the Foundational level are building core skills from the ground up. In literacy, this means developing letter recognition, basic sight words, and elementary sentence construction. In numeracy, this covers counting, basic addition and subtraction, and understanding place value. There is absolutely no stigma associated with starting at Foundational; many of our most successful graduates began their journey here.
Developing: Developing learners have some existing skills but need structured practice and instruction to reach functional proficiency. In reading, this might mean comprehending simple paragraphs but struggling with complex texts. In math, it often means comfort with whole-number operations but difficulty with fractions, decimals, or word problems.
Intermediate: Intermediate learners can handle everyday reading and writing tasks with reasonable confidence but seek to build the higher-order skills needed for GED-level testing, workplace communication, or continued education. They may read newspapers and fill out forms but need support with analytical reading, persuasive writing, or algebraic reasoning.
Advanced: Advanced learners have a solid academic foundation and are working toward a specific credential or professional skill set. They may be preparing for the GED exam, studying for the TOEFL, or building digital workplace competencies to support a career transition. Instruction at this level is targeted, goal-oriented, and often self-directed with instructor coaching.
Digital Literacy Pre-Course Recommendations
If your assessment recommends a Digital Foundations pre-course, this is a four-week introductory workshop covering the absolute basics of computer use: turning on a device, using a keyboard and mouse or trackpad, navigating a desktop interface, opening a web browser, and creating an email account. This workshop is offered free of charge and runs concurrently with other program schedules, so it does not delay your enrollment in your primary program track. Approximately 18% of our incoming learners complete this pre-course before starting their main program, and completing it correlates with a 23% higher program retention rate.