var items = [
        {value: "item1", label: "Item 1"},
        {value: "item2", label: "Item 2"},
        {value: "item3", label: "Item 3"},
        ...
        {value: "item14", label: "Item 14"},
    ];

$('#checkBoxField').kendoCheckBoxGroup({
    items: items,
    layout: "horizontal"
});

 public class CheckBoxItemDto
    {
        //public IDictionary<string, object> HtmlAttributes { get; set; }

        //public string CssClass { get; set; }

        public bool? Enabled { get; set; }

        //public bool? Encoded { get; set; }

        public string Label { get; set; }

        public string Value { get; set; }
    }

public class CheckBoxItemViewModel
    {
        public List<CheckBoxItemDto> Items { get; set; }

        public string[] CheckBoxGroupValue { get; set; }
    }

public class EqInstsDataViewModel
    {
        public IEnumerable<MyOtherViewModel> MyOtherViewModel { get; set; }
        public CheckBoxItemViewModel CheckBoxItemViewModel { get; set; }
    }

 
public IActionResult GetChartPartialView()
        {
            try
            { 
                List<CheckBoxItemDto> checkBoxItemDto = GetCheckBoxItem();  //Get CheckBox Items
                CheckBoxItemViewModel checkBoxItem = new CheckBoxItemViewModel() { Items = checkBoxItemDto };

                MyViewModel myViewModel = new MyViewModel() { Items = checkBoxItem }

                return PartialView("~/Views/Shared/_MyPartialView.cshtml", myViewModel);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return Json(ex.Message);
            }
        }

public List<CheckBoxItem> GetCheckBoxItem()
        {            
            try
            {
                #region CheckBoxItems

                var itemsList = new List<CheckBoxItemDto>()
                {
                    new CheckBoxItemDto()
                    {
                        Label = "Animals",
                        Value = "1",
                        Enabled = true
                    },
                     new CheckBoxItemDto()
                    {
                        Label = "Friuts",
                        Value = "2",
                        Enabled = false
                    } ,
                };

                #endregion

                return itemList;
            }
            catch(Exception)
            {
                throw;
            }
        }

@(Html.Kendo().CheckBoxGroup()     
        .Name("MyCheckBox")
        .BindTo(Model.CheckBoxItemViewModel.Items)  //Cannot convert from List<CheckBoxItemDto> to string[]
        .Value(Model.CheckBoxItemViewModel.CheckBoxGroupValue)
        .Layout("horizontal")
     )

<script>

    $(document).ready(function () {

        $("#chk").kendoCheckBoxGroup({
            layout: "vertical",
            autoBind: false,
            items: ["item 1", "item 2", "item 3"],
            
            change: function (e) {

                chkChanged();

            }           
        });
    });

chkChanged = function () {

    debugger;
    var displaynames = $("#chk").kendoCheckBoxGroup().data("kendoCheckBoxGroup");
    var value = displaynames.value().join(",");

    console.log(value)
    
}
</script>