#### Bug, feature request, or proposal: Bug #### What is the expected behavior? change event should fire only once per selection #### What is the current behavior? the change event as well as the ngModelChange event fires twice when using the up and down arrows on the keyboard to select a value. #### What are the steps to reproduce? This occurs only when the item is in focus and the keyboard is used (no panel is shown). Providing a Plunker (or similar) is the *best* way to get the team to see your issue. https://plnkr.co/edit/0tnDAA?p=preview #### What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior? #### Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected? Angular 4.3.5 Material beta.10 Tested in chrome #### Is there anything else we should know?