Can rubrics help make students to become self directed or independent learners?

Maybe. My experience is as a teacher using the rubric as a scoring guide to evaluate the quality of students constructed responses. It gives me consistency for grading and criteria for grading. Given to a student a rubric can be used in planning their work and evaluating their own work. This can give a way to self evaluate, reflect, and use peer review. Because of these things it could help them become independent workers.