The Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) uses the Qualls Early Learning Inventory^® (QELI^®) statewide as a uniform school readiness screener. This screener is used to assess entering Kindergarten students’ readiness for school. Students entering school for the first time in grade one are also assessed with this screener. Riverside produces materials, scores the inventories using Arkansas-specific norms, and produces district and statewide reports.

Dallas Independent School District administers The Iowa Tests in their norm-referenced testing program in grades K–9 to measure grade-to-grade academic growth. The tests are also used for diagnostic purposes, student placement into Gifted and Talented programs, and for program evaluation. Spanish-speaking students in the District’s Bilingual Education program in grades K–6 also take Logramos^®, Riverside’s achievement test in Spanish that is built on a blueprint that is parallel to that for The Iowa Tests. Riverside produces and distributes all test materials and supports district-level scanning and report production by providing proprietary software programs.

To determine student achievement compared to other students nationally, the Georgia Department of Education adopted The Iowa Tests for district use. The Iowa Tests are administered at three grade levels to approximately 300,000 students annually. As the publisher of The Iowa Tests, Riverside produces and distributes all test materials, processes, scores, and reports all test results.

The Georgia Department of Education has implemented an online assessment system so that teachers and students can have access from any Internet connection to tests and test questions that are aligned to Georgia standards. The system allows students and teachers a flexible method to take charge of their proficiency. Riverside supplies the State with a complete assessment solution that uses web-based delivery and state-of-the-art technology for automated reporting and analysis of tests. Each year over a million tests are delivered to Georgia students through this system. Support services, including comprehensive program management, regional training workshops, and help desk services for all user levels, are also provided by Riverside.

The Iowa Testing Program is the longest running statewide testing program in the country. This unique program is a voluntary cooperative program that includes administering The Iowa Tests to students in grades K–12. The program is provided as a service to Iowa schools by the College of Education of The University of Iowa and is supported by Riverside Publishing. The emphasis in the program has been on the use of The Iowa Tests for instructional purposes. Riverside produces test materials and distributes them to The University of Iowa and manages the processing, scoring, and reporting of test results.

The Louisiana Department of Education is using an augmented norm-referenced testing model to comply with federal No Child Left Behind mandates. This comprehensive solution allows Louisiana educators to measure student proficiency of state standards as well as Louisiana student achievement compared to a national norm sample. In this program, Riverside serves as a subcontractor to Data Recognition Corporation in providing The Iowa Tests as the norm-referenced testing component. Riverside staff completed a thorough alignment of The Iowa Tests, and test development specialists augmented the test with custom developed items in English language arts and mathematics in grades 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9 to fully align with Louisiana standards and grade level expectations.

The Mississippi Department of Education’s Office of Special Education selected the Battelle Developmental Inventory^TM as the State’s standard tool to evaluate preschool children, ages 3–5. As the publisher of the Battelle Developmental Inventory, Riverside trained examiners across the state to use the test and its web-based reporting tool. Riverside also handles all production and distribution of the test materials for the State as well as the processing, scoring, and reporting of test results. Mississippi can look at individual student results to better understand the specific disabilities of a given student and to meet the federal reporting requirements of the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).

To meet NCLB science assessment requirements, the Mississippi Department of Education selected Riverside to develop criterion-referenced science assessments for grades 5 and 8. Riverside’s test development specialists worked closely with Mississippi educators to create a test blueprint and item development plan and then created items aligned to the Mississippi Curriculum Science Framework 2001 standards. Standard setting was held in 2007. Riverside supports the tests with a full range of operational services, including materials production and distribution, test scoring and reporting and provides comprehensive program management.

Riverside is working with the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to develop and deliver a series of ten new high school end-of-course assessments. The tests will provide information about student learning and achievement in terms of the state’s Show-Me Standards and course-level expectations. The comprehensive implementation includes developing custom test items and forms, setting achievement levels for each assessment, providing scoring and reporting services, and supplying scoring training and scoring opportunities for Missouri’s teachers. This new program will make Missouri a leader among states in the area of high school assessment and will continue Missouri's tradition of providing its educators with opportunities to participate in the item development and scoring processes.

The Iowa Tests were selected by the Nevada Department of Education in 2002 to be the norm-referenced component of the Nevada Proficiency Examination Program. The State uses The Iowa Tests to provide a comparison of the achievement of Nevada students to that of the national norms group. Riverside provides a full range of test administration and support services as well as materials shipment, scoring and reporting and comprehensive program management to ensure a successful delivery of the tests to students in grades 4, 7, and 10.

Riverside is working with the New York State Education Department to develop a three-year sequence of new Regents mathematics examinations. Under this contract, Riverside is responsible for developing Integrated Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra 2/Trigonometry examinations. Operational administration of the assessments, which are currently under development, will begin in 2008 for Integrated Algebra, 2009 for Geometry, and 2010 for Algebra 2/Trigonometry. Results from the examinations, which are aligned to New York’s learning standards for mathematics, will help New York teachers, students, and parents know how well students are learning key mathematical skills.

Implemented in 2003, the Test for Admission into Catholic High School program tests students in grade 8 using the Survey Battery of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills^® (ITBS^®) and the nonverbal (spatial) battery of the Cognitive Abilities Test^TM (CogAT^®). The test results are used for determining placement of students into specific diocesan high schools. There are two diocesan programs in the City: the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn/Queens.

Oklahoma’s Modified Alternate Assessments are designed for those students with disabilities for whom both Oklahoma’s Alternate Assessment Program and the regular Oklahoma Statewide Testing Program are inappropriate. The modified assessments provide information about grade-level student academic performance in grades 3–8 and high school in specified areas of knowledge, skills, and reading and mathematics content in relation to the State’s modified academic achievement standards. Riverside is providing expertise in assessment development, standard setting, scoring, and reporting for this new program. Riverside’s staff is working closely with Oklahoma educators, particularly special education professionals, who best know the specific learning needs of the population for which the modified assessments are designed.

South Carolina mandates that all grade 2 students be screened for identification and placement into local Gifted and Talented programs. To meet this requirement, students are tested with The Iowa Tests to measure academic achievement in reading and mathematics. They are also tested with CogAT to measure overall cognitive ability in verbal, nonverbal, and quantitative reasoning domains. Riverside manages the overall program including distribution and collection of test materials, scoring and reporting, and pre-test workshops to assist district personnel. 

To supplement the data gathered from the state standards-based tests, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) implemented a research project to obtain nationally comparative results for all grade levels and subject areas tested by the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS). In this study, Riverside partners with TEA in administering The Iowa Tests to create a demographically representative sample of Texas public schools. A final report is generated by Riverside psychometricians to assist the TEA in making data comparisons to national norms.