It seems that making changes to the selected values from the UI, doesn't update $scope.selectedItems, nor does updating $scope.selectedItems through JavaScript update the View.
01.<select kendo-multi-select02. id="'itemMultiSelect'"03. ng-if="itemDataSource"04. k-data-placeholder="'Select items...'"05. k-ng-model="selectedItems"06. k-data-source="itemsDataSource"07. k-data-text-field="'itemyName'"08. k-data-value-field="'itemId'"09. k-value-primitive=false10. k-auto-close=false11. k-on-select="onSelect(kendoEvent)">12. </select>