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

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

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, a leading educational

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in the United States, in 1979.

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

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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

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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 www.books.google.com
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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 The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is a group-administered K–12 assessment published by Riverside Insights and intended to estimate students' learned reasoning and problem solving abilities through a battery of verbal, quantitative, and nonv ...

(CogAT)'' *''Criterion'' ''Online Writing Evaluation'' *''DataDirector'' *''DataManager'' *''Diagnostic Assessments of Reading, 2nd Edition (DAR)'' *''easyCBM'' *''Edusoft'' ''Assessment Management System'' *''Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Fourth Edition (GMRT)'' *''Interactive Results Manager (iRM)'' *''Iowa Algebra Aptitude Test, Fifth Edition (IAAT)'' *''IowaFlex'' *''

Iowa Tests of Basic Skills The Iowa Assessments (previously the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and originally Iowa Every Pupil Test of Basic Skills) also known informally as the Iowa Tests, formerly known as the ITBS tests or the Iowa Basics, are standardized tests provided as a ...

, Forms A, B, and C (ITBS)'' *''

Iowa Tests of Educational Development The Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED) are a set of standardized tests given annually to high school students in many schools in the United States, covering Grades 9 to 12. The tests were created by the University of Iowa's College of Edu ...

, Forms A, B, and C (ITED),'' *''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