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The value of English Testing The value of English Testing Abstract Testing, an approach, is usually presented as a means of checking mass, of people’s English level in use out of campus, of both teachers teaching and students learning. In the 21st century, around the world, testing is also a means of getting employed, promoted, and better lived as well. With the development of economics, culture, politics, social science etc. in English speaking countries, English becomes a universal and practical tool of getting various fields of information. Learning English, at present, is not only a fashion of reflecting whatever, but also an approach of improving living standard and social status. Therefore, there is no other means to check the level of people learning of thEir English, but testing. In people’s republic of China (PRC), nationally, at the moment, we have many different tests covering different objectives, especially the inclination of getting employed as one of evidences, as non-native speakers: CET (College English Test), TEM (Test of English Major), MSET (Middle School English Test) etc. This paper discusses the value of English testing, in teaching and learning fields in the campus of college, under the analysis of the teachers’ teaching purpose and students’ learning result with the theory of educational psychology research. I. Introduction Teaching and learning are closely related to testing. Testing is a means of enabling quality of teachers’ teaching and acquisition of students’ language learning. Testing covers the aspects of measurement and evaluation although these three concepts (testing, measurement evaluation) are set with respective meaning. In the following, I shall mainly discuss the relations between teaching and learning, between testing, teaching and learning, the functions of evaluation and measurement, how to test, in order to prove the value of English Testing. II. Testing: Testing is the running of a system or a program a