Riverside Insights
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| Company type | Private, Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Publishing; Education |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | Itasca, Illinois, U.S. |
Key people | Vivek Kartha (CEO) |
| Products | Clinical and educational standardized test materials |
Number of employees | 250 |
| Parent | Alpine Investors |
| Website | www |
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
[edit]Early history
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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
[edit]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
[edit]The clinical side of Riverside's business focuses on providing research and test materials for practicing professionals.
Products
[edit]- 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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Completes Riverside Divestiture". www.hmhco.com. 2018-10-01. Retrieved 2023-09-29.
- ^ "Division of Corporations - Filing". Delaware Department of State: Division of Corporations. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
File Number: 7039799
- ^ "Business Entity Search". The Office of the Illinois Secretary of State. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
File Number: 07324618
- ^ "Riverside Assessments LLC :: Delaware (US) :: OpenCorporates". OpenCorporates. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
- ^ a b c Faithfull, Emily (1884). Three Visits to America. New York: Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers. pp. 24–25.
- ^ Long, William J. Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Authors of England and America. ISBN 9781606800911.