Riverside Insights

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Riverside Insights
Company type Private, Subsidiary
IndustryEducation
Founded1979
HeadquartersRemote
Key people
Vivek Kartha (CEO)
Products Clinical and educational standardized test materials
Number of employees
300
Parent Alpine Investors
Website www.riversideinsights.com

Riverside Insights is a remote, educational technology company and developer of clinical and educational standardized assessments in the United States. It is a charter member of the Association of Test Publishers.

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Riverside Insights was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) in 1979. HMH sold Riverside Insights 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

Early history

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

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. HMH sold Riverside to private equity firm Alpine Investors who renamed it as Riverside Insights in 2018. It is now a remote company.

Markets

Clinical

The clinical side of Riverside's business focuses on providing research and test materials for practicing professionals such as clinical and school psychologists as well as Universities with psychology programs.

Products

  • Batería III Woodcock-MuñozNU
  • Batería IV
  • Battelle Developmental Inventory,2nd Edition Normative Update (BDI-2 NU)
  • Battelle Developmental Inventory,2nd Edition-Spanish (BDI-2Spanish)
  • Battelle Developmental Inventory, 3rdEdition (BDI-3)
  • Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (BeeryVMI-5)
  • BenderVisual-Motor Gestalt Test, Second Edition (Bender-Gestalt II)
  • Bilingual Verbal Ability Tests, Normative Update (BVAT NU)
  • Das•NaglieriCognitive 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 V (WJ V) [6]
  • Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV)
  • Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Early Cognitive and Academic Development (ECAD)
  • Woodcock Interpretation & Instructional Interventions Program (WIIIP)
  • Woodcock-JohnsonIII NU Brief Battery
  • Woodcock-JohnsonIII Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJIIIDRB)
  • Woodcock-JohnsonIII NU Tests of Achievement
  • Woodcock-JohnsonIII NU Tests of Cognitive Abilities
  • Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey –Revised [7]
  • The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers [8]

K-12 Educational

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

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

  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. 1 2 3 Faithfull, Emily (1884). Three Visits to America. New York: Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers. pp. 24–25.
  6. ↑ Insights, Riverside. "Riverside Insights Launches the Woodcock-Johnson V: A Legacy of Trust, Reimagined for Today's Educational Needs". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2025-09-25.
  7. ↑ Sandilos, Lia E.; Lewis, Kandia; Komaroff, Eugene; Hammer, Carol Scheffner; Scarpino, Shelley E.; Lopez, Lisa; Rodriguez, Barbara; Goldstein, Brian (2015-10-02). "Analysis of Bilingual Children's Performance on the English and Spanish Versions of the Woodcock-Muñoz Language Survey-R (WMLS-R)". Language Assessment Quarterly. 12 (4): 386–408. doi:10.1080/15434303.2015.1100198. ISSN   1543-4303. PMC   4686152 . PMID   26705400.
  8. ↑ 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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