Riverside Insights is a United States publisher of clinical and educational standardized tests in the United States; it is headquartered in

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. It is a charter member of the Association of Test Publishers. Riverside Insights was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of

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(HMH) in 1979. HMH sold Riverside to private equity firm Alpine Investors for $140 million in 2018. The company was incorporated as Riverside Assessments LLC in Delaware and subsequently in other states, including Illinois.

History

Early history

Riverside originated in 1852 as The Riverside Press, a book printing plant in

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. Henry Houghton originally started The Riverside Press in an old

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building along the banks of the

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. A visitor described it as "one of the model printing-offices in America". 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. In 1880, George Mifflin entered into a partnership with Henry Houghton and together founded and led

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. 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

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, Houghton Mifflin became increasingly involved in publishing

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s. The Riverside Publishing Company was officially established as a wholly owned

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in 1979.

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'' *''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 ''

K-12 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)'' *'' 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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External links

Riverside Insights website
Book publishing companies based in Illinois Companies based in DuPage County, Illinois Publishing companies established in 1979