Student revelations in the classroom about practice in field work settings have created concern for many educators about the quality of group work education in the field. In order to substantiate these impressions, a mail survey was conducted of an MSW program's field instructors supervising in the method. The focus of the survey is on: (1) student assignments and learning activities, (2) the agency as a context for group work education, (3) the group work education and experience of the field instructors. The findings reveal that student assignments are more appropriate than originally believed, but support the impressions that the agency is less systematic about its use of group work than case work and that group work more than case work is taught through apprenticeship training techniques rather than through a conceptualized approach. Implications for greater professionalization of the method are offered.