From a Long Time Chemistry Instructor

Good luck with this.  It is vastly needed.  I would say that my entering young students cannot read and follow instructions.  That can be a real hazard in a chemistry lab!  Perhaps because my style of learning involves reading the directions, I tend to give detailed written instructions for assignments, for how to make a grade, for extra credit - everything!  So, it's very frustrating to me (why bother?) when students seem to not have a clue about how to proceed.