Riverside Insights
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| Company type | Private, Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters |  Rolling Meadows, Illinois |
| Products | Clinical and educational standardized test materials |
| Parent | Alpine Investors |
| Website | www.riversidepublishing.com |
Riverside Publishing Company is a leading publisher of clinical and educational standardized tests in the United States; it is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. It is also a charter member of the Association of Test Publishers.
Riverside Publishing was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a leading educational publisher in the United States, in 1979.
On October 1, 2018, HMH divested its Riverside clinical and standardized testing portfolio to Alpine Investors for $140 million.
History
Early history
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".[1] 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.[1]
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[1]
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
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.
Riverside Publishing’s national headquarters and editorial offices are located in the Atrium Corporate Center at 3800 Golf Road and Route 53 in the Chicago suburb of Rolling Meadows. This facility houses the company’s senior management, accounting, sales and marketing, customer service, educational and clinical assessments, quality assurance, information technology, state contract management, publishing processes, custom assessments departments, and measurement research departments.
Markets
Clinical
The clinical side of Riverside's business focuses on providing research and test materials for practicing professionals.
Products
- Batería III Woodcock-Muñoz NU
- Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition (BDI-2)
- Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition-Spanish (BDI-2 Spanish)
- 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)
- 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 III NU Brief Battery
- Woodcock-Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJIII DRB)
- Woodcock-Johnson III NU Complete
- Woodcock-Johnson III NU Tests of Achievement
- Woodcock-Johnson III NU Tests of Cognitive Abilities
- Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey –Revised
- Woodcock Interpretation & Instructional Interventions Program (WIIIP)
- The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers [2]
Educational
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
- Assess2Know
- Basic Early Assessment of Reading (BEAR)
- Battelle Developmental Inventory, 2nd Edition (BDI-2)
- Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT)
- Criterion Online Writing Evaluation
- DataDirector
- Diagnostic Assessments of Reading, 2nd Edition (DAR)
- Edusoft Assessment Management System
- Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Fourth Edition (GMRT)
- Interactive Results Manager (iRM)
- Iowa Algebra Aptitude Test, Fifth Edition (IAAT)
- Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, Forms A, B, and C (ITBS)
- Iowa Tests of Educational Development, Forms A, B, and C (ITED),
- Iowa Writing Assessment
- Logramos
- Nelson-Denny Reading Test (ND)
- Qualls Early Learning Inventory (QELI)
- SkillSurfer
- Woodcock-Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJIII DRB)
- Woodcock-Johnson III NU Tests of Achievement
- Woodcock-Johnson III NU Tests of Cognitive Abilities
- Trial Teaching Strategies (TTS)
Other divisions
Scoring
In autumn of 2002, Riverside opened a new facility for its scoring operations in Itasca. The physical address is 761 District Drive, Itasca, Illinois. This facility occupies nearly 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2) for receiving, sorting, scanning, processing, shipping, and archiving services purposes.
External links
- ^ a b c Faithfull, Emily (1884). Three Visits to America. New York: Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers. pp. 24–25.
- ^ www.books.google.com