This article already had a summary and a few charts so I will give a couple of examples that go with this article. Since attribution theory is concerned with why things happen, or the causes, I will give some real life of examples that go along with this theory.

If a student is doing poorly in math and they claim they have not been taught well and it is not their fault for failing that goes with the locus idea. The student may have not been doing well because of effort but he/she blames it on someone else. The student blames everything else but him or herself.

Again, if a student is doing poorly in math they may claim that I have never been good at math so why should I try. This idea goes along with the idea of stability. If the students believes that he or she cannot do something they will usually fail at the task put in front of them. They may have no reason to learn math because they are bad at it and they do not see the whole picture. They don't understand why they need to learn math and why it is important.

The last theory is controllability. The student who is doing poorly in math may blame there problems on bad luck or the difficulty of the assignment. They may claim the assignment is too hard and that failure was inevitable. In reality though it is probably due to the students lack of effort to try and succeed.

This article briefly touches the parts of the attribution theory. It also mentions ways teachers can help with students who use the different attributions as excuses.