I tried to swim upstream by compensating for all these factors through everything short of literal spoon-feeding. My evaluations stank and I still had to fail a lot of students.
Every class is different.
Perhaps these ideas seem obvious but it was a helpful change of paradigm for me. The idea is 'to show, not tell. They stare blankly. We graph this and re-do the feedback analysis looking at the slope of the curve at some points. To get them to pay attention.