Riverside Insights

Riverside Insights
Company typePrivate, Subsidiary
IndustryPublishing; Education
Founded1979
HeadquartersItasca, Illinois, U.S.
Key people
Vivek Kartha (CEO)
ProductsClinical and educational standardized test materials
Number of employees
250
ParentAlpine Investors
Websitewww.riversideinsights.com

Riverside Insights is a United States publisher of clinical and educational standardized tests in the United States; it is headquartered in Itasca, Illinois. It is a charter member of the Association of Test Publishers.

Riverside Insights was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) in 1979. HMH sold Riverside to private equity firm Alpine Investors for $140 million in 2018.[1] The company was incorporated as Riverside Assessments LLC in Delaware and subsequently in other states, including Illinois.[2][3][4]

History

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Early history

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The Riverside Press headquarters as it appeared in 1911 and, in the top right-hand corner, the original facility from 1852

Riverside originated in 1852 as The Riverside Press, a book printing plant in Boston, Massachusetts. Henry Houghton originally started The Riverside Press in an old Cambridge building along the banks of the Charles River. A visitor described it as "one of the model printing-offices in America".[5] Houghton chose to employ women as well as men as compositors, a radical decision which he said was influenced by the Victoria Press in England.[5]

Mr. Houghton, one of the proprietors of the Riverside Press, took me over that vast establishment. The composing-room is ninety feet long, the walls were adorned with engravings, the window-sills bright with flowers, embellishments said to be due to "refining feminine influence." The men and women were working side by side". – Emily Faithfull[5]

In 1880, George Mifflin entered into a partnership with Henry Houghton and together founded and led Houghton Mifflin Company. They soon established an educational department and quickly expanded the company's educational offerings.

Modern era

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Beginning with the publication of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale during World War I, Houghton Mifflin became increasingly involved in publishing standardized tests. The Riverside Publishing Company was officially established as a wholly owned subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin in 1979.

Markets

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Clinical

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The clinical side of Riverside's business focuses on providing research and test materials for practicing professionals.

Products

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  • Batería III Woodcock-Muñoz NU
  • Batería IV
  • Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition Normative Update (BDI-2 NU)
  • Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition-Spanish (BDI-2 Spanish)
  • Battelle Developmental Inventory, 3rd Edition (BDI-3)
  • Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (Beery VMI-5)
  • Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, Second Edition (Bender-Gestalt II)
  • Bilingual Verbal Ability Tests, Normative Update (BVAT NU)
  • Das•Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System (CAS)
  • Dean-Woodcock Neuropsychological Battery (DW)
  • ESGI (Educational Software for Guiding Instruction)
  • ImPACT Applications
  • Infant-Toddler Developmental Assessment (IDA)
  • Koppitz-2
  • Parents' Observations of Infants and Toddlers (POINT)
  • Scales of Independent Behavior–Revised (SIB–R)
  • Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5)
  • Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT)
  • Woodcock-Johnson (WJ IV)
  • Woodcock-Johnson Test of Early Cognitive and Academic Development (ECAD)
  • Woodcock Interpretation & Instructional Interventions Program (WIIIP)
  • Woodcock-Johnson III NU Brief Battery
  • Woodcock-Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJIII DRB)
  • Woodcock-Johnson III NU Tests of Achievement
  • Woodcock-Johnson III NU Tests of Cognitive Abilities
  • Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey –Revised
  • The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers [6]

K-12 Educational

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The educational side of Riverside's business focuses on providing research and test materials for educational professionals as well as Universities with psychology programs.

Products

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  • Assess2Know
  • Basic Early Assessment of Reading (BEAR)
  • Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT)
  • DataManager
  • Diagnostic Assessments of Reading, 2nd Edition (DAR)
  • easyCBM
  • Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Fourth Edition (GMRT)
  • Interactive Results Manager (iRM)
  • Iowa Algebra Aptitude Test, Fifth Edition (IAAT)
  • IowaFlex
  • Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, Forms A, B, and C (ITBS)
  • Iowa Assessments, Forms E, F, and G,
  • Logramos
  • Nelson-Denny Reading Test (ND)
  • Qualls Early Learning Inventory (QELI)
  • SkillSurfer
  • Trial Teaching Strategies (TTS)

References

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  1. ^ "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Completes Riverside Divestiture". www.hmhco.com. 2018-10-01. Retrieved 2023-09-29.
  2. ^ "Division of Corporations - Filing". Delaware Department of State: Division of Corporations. Retrieved 29 September 2023. File Number: 7039799
  3. ^ "Business Entity Search". The Office of the Illinois Secretary of State. Retrieved 29 September 2023. File Number: 07324618
  4. ^ "Riverside Assessments LLC :: Delaware (US) :: OpenCorporates". OpenCorporates. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
  5. ^ a b c Faithfull, Emily (1884). Three Visits to America. New York: Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers. pp. 24–25.
  6. ^ Long, William J. Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Authors of England and America. ISBN 9781606800911.
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