On the use of interpretive structural modeling to obtain models for worth assessment

Interpretive structural modeling is used to generate the hierarchy used in worth assessment. The partitioning techniques of interpretive structural modeling are extended to permit identification of a single sink digraph tree as a special type of structural model. The worth assessment hierarchy is identified as a single sink digraph tree. An example is presented to demonstrate how the extended partitioning techniques can be used in the interpretive structural modeling process to generate the worth assessment hierarchy for a higher education program planning problem.