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Riverside Insights
Company type	Private, Subsidiary
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.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

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".^[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.

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 ^[6]

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.